Simone Weil was a philosopher who He was born on February 3, 1909 In the city of Paris within a Jewish, intellectual and secular family that would give rise to a restless character that would characterize his life and create his philosophical thinking, which stood out for his pacifism and a passionate and short life.
A philosopher that would be in the words of Albert Camus “The only great spirit of our time”, in reference to the first half of the twentieth century, and whose political activism led her to participate in the Aragon front of the Spanish Civil War in its beginning.
Simone Weil, the pacifist philosopher who fought in the Civil War
It was at 27 when Simone Weil departed by train from France to Barcelona eager to fight on the Republican side In the Aragon Front with the Durruti column and thus fight against military uprising. First he did it as a voluntary journalist, and then join the fighters and participated in war actions.
However, after seeing the atrocities of war, including several executions of his side, on the contrary, he returned to France, but what he lived in the civil war would mark her in the development of her marked pacifism, which was accentuated when He had to change Paris for Marseille due to his family’s Jewish origin.
His time in the civil war would be recorded in Spain’s diary, Where Simone Weil not only told his impressions, but also attached photographs and letters of his experience, and his dissatisfaction was evident by having ended up being “a conflict between Russia, Italy and Germany.”
It was not understood with Simone de Beauvoir
In Simone Weil from a young age, concerns were born that would mark his life, and his education, daughter of a renowned doctor and his brother, André Weil, that would become one of the most prominent mathematicians of the twentieth century. A few years after age, he entered the Superior Normal School.
There, he entered with the best note and file, followed by Simone de Beauvoir, with which he never understood himself, as it was clear when the author of ‘The Second Sex’ evidenced a discussion for famine in China when they were in full studies and that would be a point that gave rise to a distancing between them:
“I envied her because she had a heart capable of beating around the world”, I would write from Beauvoir in a biography, in which he also recounts the answer he had and that would mark the relationship of ‘rivalry’ that they would have: “How do you notice That you have never been hungry, ”Weil would say.
A restless and short life marked by their ideas
Simone Weil would live a short life, but in which he would move for his principles and by trying to understand different issues from the philosophical point of view. Thus, once graduated he dedicated himself to the teaching of philosophy in female high schools, but the continuous questioning of his activism for his superiors would make him renounce this work.
In fact, moved by wanting to understand the life and motivation of the most humble classes decided A Renault factorywhere it would be fired for its weak constitution.
After having several mystical experiences and another participation as a voluntary journalist in World War II, Simone Weil would die with only 34 years for a heart attack while sleeping after being diagnosed with tuberculosis.
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