Ep. 250: Simone Weil on Human Needs (Part Two)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

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🗓️ 24 August 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Continuing on "The Needs of the Soul" from The Need for Roots (1943). We got started in part one with our need for order, and in this part we add liberty, obedience, responsibility, equality, hierarchy, and honor.

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0:00.0	The partially examined life relies on your support.
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0:05.4	please visit partiallyexaminedlife.com slash support.
0:16.4	Hey, this is the partially examined life episode 250, part two.
0:21.1	Talking about Simone Vey, we got through her fragment meditation
0:25.2	on obedience to liberty.
0:26.1	We are in the middle of the needs of the soul.
0:28.5	From 1943, which is a chunk of the need for roots
0:33.1	written toward the end of her life.
0:34.7	So let's turn to our second need, liberty.
0:36.9	Read the relevant quote.
0:38.7	Liberty taking the word in its concrete sense
0:41.0	consists in the ability to choose.
0:43.1	It'll turn out that there's always rules that limit liberty,
0:47.3	right?
0:47.6	This is sort of a staple of any discussion of free will as well,
0:51.3	which is to say that it doesn't make sense
0:53.5	to say that freedom of any sort is simply arbitrary,
0:57.4	willing or acting on arbitrary wins.
1:00.5	There's always some sort of rules.
1:02.4	And the question is where those rules come from.
1:04.5	In this case, when the rules come not from a hostile source
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