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Elisabet Sahtouris, Will Pye, Jeff Warren - So, Now We Are Awake, Are We Going to Save the Planet?

By Elisabet Sahtouris — 2013

So, Now We Are Awake, Are We Going To Save The Planet?'with Elisabet Sahtouris, Will Pye and Jeff Warren. Moderated by Iain and Renate McNay

51:13 min

The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind

Hailed by Andre Gide as the patron saint of all outsiders, Simone Weil’s short life was ample testimony to her beliefs. In 1942 she fled France along with her family, going firstly to America. She then moved back to London in order to work with de Gaulle.

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Simone Weil
2001
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What We Owe to Others: Simone Weil’s Radical Reminder

She believed we have obligations to attend to our fellow humans. How could that spirit change our politics?

Article
Robert Zaretsky
2018
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Draft for a Statement of Human Obligation

In this 1943 essay, written during the last year of her life, which she spent working with Gen. de Gaulle in the struggle for French liberation, Weil makes the case for the existence of a transcendent and universal moral law, and describes the social responsibilities that accompany it.

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Richard Rees (Translator)
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Environmental Justice