The Living Philosophy of Simone Weil: Philosopher, Soldier, Saint

“the only great spirit of our times” — Albert Camus

Simone Weil (image via Wikimedia: Public Domain)

The Philosopher is a category that encapsulates a number of different types. There’s the theoretical masterminds like Aristotle, Kant and Hegel and there’s the unsystematic lightning rods like Nietzsche, Plato and Wittgenstein. But as well as these two mainstays there’s another type that we’ve explored in …