Philosophy
Thinking about Thinking
A Philosopher Who Happens to be a Christian
Patheos, July 22, 2021
Related: Vance Morgan, Weaving the World: Simone Weil on Science, Mathematics, and Love (2005)
A Philosopher Who Happens to be a Christian
Patheos, July 22, 2021.
Video Interview: Eric O. Springsted
Join Resistance Recovery founder Piers Kaniuka and author and scholar Eric O. Springsted as they discuss his new book Simone Weil for the 21st Century. Recorded on July 14, 2021. Eric O. Springsted is a long time scholar of the thought of Simone Weil. He is the co-founder of the American Weil Society and served as its president for thirty-three years. After a career as a teacher, scholar, and pastor, he is retired and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the author and editor of over a dozen previous books.
Resistance Recovery, July 23, 2021
Related: “A Q&A Interview with Eric Springsted,” Attention.
Peter Winch: Unity: Presupposition or Demand?
This is a translation of a paper which the late Peter Winch wrote in German for a 1987 conference. He deals with fundamental issues in ethics, especially with the Wittgensteinian idea that “primitive reactions” play a crucial role in the formation of moral concepts. It also responds to an important objection, namely that primitive reactions can be as much immoral as moral. Ranging as it does over Winch’s interests in Wittgenstein, Simone Weil, and Plato, the paper can serve as a concise introduction to Winch’s work.
Philosophical Investigations, vol. 44, no. 2, July 9, 2021
Interview: The Philosophy of Simone Weil with Eric O. Springsted
Podcast interview with Eric Springsted about his career, his life work on Weil, and his latest book on her, along with comments on Plato, Wittgenstein, St. John of the Cross, and Kierkegaard.
Hermitix (July 7, 2021)
The Future of Thinking in a Digital Age
How we think is shaped by what we read and how we read. The “how” is a vital part of the equation. Much the same holds true for writing and how we express our thoughts. In both instances, method should play its part though it must be neither mechanical nor categorical. Rather, such method should be a way of opening the mind rather than cabining it. Yet so much of the process of contemporary scholarship cuts against this grain. Why?
Epoché, issue # 41 (June 2021)
“Why am I being Hurt?”
Examined Life, June 28, 2021
The philosophy of being good
Both the Anglo-Irish novelist Iris Murdoch and the French mystic Simone Weil had the idea of the ‘good’ at the centre of their philosophy – and both tried to resolve the tension between thinking and ‘doing’ in their own way.
The Tablet (June 23, 2021)
