Simone Weil and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road : Conditions for the Possibility of Beauty, Justice, and Faith in God.

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Year of Publication

2009

Author

Horn, Patrick

Editor

Dalferth, Ingolf U

Book

The Presence and Absence of God: Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion, Conference 2008.

Series Volume

42

Pages

187-199

Publisher

Mohr Siebeck

Place Published

Tübingen

Language

English

Series Title

Religion in Philosophy and Theology

Keywords

beauty
McCarthy, Cormac
faith
God
good
justice
necessity

Annotation

Using examples drawn from McCarthy’s The Road, Horn looks at Weil's notions of the 'absence of God', necessity, the beautiful and goodness in order to "consider what Weil means by necessity and its relations to beauty, and then consider how justice is connected to these, and finally the link between all three concepts and her remark about the absence of God" (pp. 187 - 188). He thus begins with discussion of necessity and beauty, going on to look at justice and goodness, and finally, goodness and faith