John McDadeCorresponding author

Simone Weil and Gerard Manley Hopkins on God, Affliction, Necessity and Sacrifice

Article
13/1 - Spring 2008, pages 1-16
Date of online publication: 30 mars 2016
Date of publication: 30 juin 2008

Abstract

Simone Weil's ideas on affliction and sacrifice have been interpreted by some as though they are the product of psychological problems. I will approach her writings on necessity and affliction through G. M. Hopkins' little prose masterpiece. Later I will suggest that she may be profitably related to some French spiritual writers in the 17th Century, who develop a link between the necessity of offering sacrifice to God and the radical contingency of created existence.

Cite this article

McDade, John. “Simone Weil and Gerard Manley Hopkins on God, Affliction, Necessity and Sacrifice.” Forum Philosophicum 13, no. 1 (2008): 1–16. doi:10.35765/forphil.2008.1301.01.