To On: A Nameless Something Over which the Mind Stumbles
Publication Type |
Book Chapter |
Year of Publication |
2004 |
Author |
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Editor |
Doering, E. Jane Springsted, Eric O. |
Book |
The Christian Platonism of Simone Weil |
Pages |
115-132 |
Publisher |
University of Notre Dame Press |
Place Published |
Notre Dame, Indiana |
Language |
English |
Chapter |
7 |
Keywords |
Buddhism |
Annotation |
De Lussy focuses here on Weil’s statement found in her notebooks that “In Plato, translate to on by the real”. De Lussy’s essay constitutes a carefully nuanced, in-depth consideration of exactly what Weil means by this statement. She traces the development of Weil’s thought in this understanding of ‘the real’ from her early writings at age seventeen, through her encounter with Zen Buddhism in the work of D.T. Suzuki to the more fully developed elaboration in her writing on Greek mathematics and philosophy. Central to the latter are Weil’s ideas of harmony and mystery, particularly her notion of convenable which De Lussy says, Weil somewhat redefines as “the concept of what is outside all concept” (p. 122). |