Open AccessSimone Weil and Gerard Manley Hopkins on God, Affliction, Necessity and Sacrifice
Author(s) -
John McDade
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
forum philosophicum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2353-7043
pISSN - 1426-1898
DOI - 10.35765/forphil.2008.1301.01
Subject(s) - sacrifice , contingency , philosophy , psychoanalysis , product (mathematics) , literature , theology , epistemology , psychology , art , geometry , mathematics
Simone Weil's ideas on affliction and sacrifice have been interpreted by some as though they are the product of psychological problems. I will approach her writings on necessity and affliction through G. M. Hopkins' little prose masterpiece. Later I will suggest that she may be profitably related to some French spiritual writers in the 17th Century, who develop a link between the necessity of offering sacrifice to God and the radical contingency of created existence.