The Following video is a continuation of my series on Classical German Philosophy and Post-Kantian Thought. The title of today's episode is: The Life and Philosophy of Simone Weil with Dr. Kathryn Lawson (King's University College, Halifax).
Moving forward in the series: we continue with our focus on the important Women Philosophers in the History of Philosophy.
For this episode on the French Philosopher, Mystic and Social Political Activist: Simone Weil (1909-1943), I invited Dr. Kathryn Lawson who is a faculty fellow in philosophy and humanities at the University of King’s College in Halifax, Canada. Dr. Lawson has lectured in philosophy at Carleton University (Ottawa), Queen’s University (Kingston), and Western University (London). Dr. Lawson's first book Ecological Ethics and the Philosophy of Simone Weil: Decreation for the Anthropocene was published with Routledge’s Environmental Ethics Series ,and she is also the co-editor of a collection on the philosophy of Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil, Unprecedented Conversations with Bloomsbury. Her philosophical work has been published widely in academic books and peer reviewed journals.
In this Episode: Dr. Kathryn Lawson explains why Simone Weil's thought matters today; and helps navigate the viewer lucidly through her complex, politics, ethics, and philosophy. Our discussion leads to a detailed analysis of Weil's relationship with metaphysics, ethics, Plato and Marx. Dr. Lawson discloses the meaning behind important Weilian concepts like Decreation, Uprootedness, Compassion & Metaxy.
Enjoy the Episode.
Dr. Kathryn Lawson
https://www.kathrynlawsonphilosophy.com/
Kathryn Lawson
Faculty Fellow in the Humanities
Teaching and Research Interests:
Continental philosophy, the history of philosophy, aesthetics, Indian philosophy, environmental ethics, philosophy of religion, and social political thought.
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