A A state of grace: the condition of attention in Simone Weil
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With the philosophy of Simone Weil, this article proposes to discuss the philosophical perspective of attention. To this end, she argues that the condition of attention demands and sustains a state of grace that, by making available to consciousness the feeling of participating in the beauty of nature, links being and world. It discusses, from the Weilian perspective, an intermediary principle between the contemplation of the forms of nature, the affection for the sacred and the engagement with otherness as a condition of attention. It seeks to infer that the familiarization of consciousness with the fundamental instances of the being is capable of facing the attentional kidnappings of the present and recovering a state of grace sufficient to unburden life. The objective is to weave a critique of the modern world from the affirmation of an attention that, unlike instrumentalized focusing techniques, demands confidence in the experience capable of linking feeling, thinking and acting in the ethical-political defense of love for the world.
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