Ep. 225: Simone Weil on War and Oppression (Part Two)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

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🗓️ 16 September 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Continuing on Simone Weil's essays "The Iliad, or the Poem of Force" (1939) and "Analysis of Oppression" (1934) with guest Corey Mohler.

We talk about the self-contradictions of power, why oppression and war are so intractable, and her positive solution (what there is of it here). Weil cuts through our left-right political dichotomy in a way that might interest you. Plus, why the Iliad is so great.

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End song: "Throw Down the Sword" from Wishbone Ash; hear Andy Powell on Nakedly Examined Music #51.

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0:48.0	Episodes 225, we've been discussing
0:50.4	Seabone new Vays, the Iliad or the poem of force,
0:53.8	939, and analysis of oppression, 1934.
0:57.9	I want to do juxtapose we were talking about
1:00.8	sort of the autonomy of the sociological
1:02.6	versus the action of the individual.
1:05.5	Two quotes here, one's right from the beginning
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