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‘The Rarer Action’: Winch goes to Maharbaleshwar
Author(s) -
McGhee Michael
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
philosophical investigations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.172
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1467-9205
pISSN - 0190-0536
DOI - 10.1111/phin.12259
Subject(s) - winch , renunciation , action (physics) , beauty , philosophy , power (physics) , epistemology , theology , physics , oceanography , geology , quantum mechanics
This is a response to Peter Winch’s Maharbaleshwar reflections on Simone Weil’s ideas about the exercise of power and its renunciation, and on her changing views about the nature of action as she draws out the implications of our ‘hesitation’ when confronted by beauty and by the presence of other human beings.