I am so happy that you mention Kurt Goedel at 51 minutes. The incompleteness theorem was proposed in 1931 and it seems like no one has heard of it. Goedel also implies that the universe is an open system. Goedel also starved himself to death, but that is another story.

Ok so professor clearly doesn’t speak French, but the lecture was one of the better summaries of Simone Weil’s life’s out there! Much appreciated.

There are some wonderful pieces available on Simone Weil. This is the frat-boy SNL version. I would suggest the BBC4 In Our Time "Simone Weil" segment. Goto In Our Time at BBC 4 and under A-Z choose S for Simone Weil. Really worth the time.

@christopherm5958

5 жыл бұрын

thank you so much

@trombone7

Жыл бұрын

The BBC4 in our time is on youtube : kzread.info/dash/bejne/dIdtmJOQXbyehc4.html ------------------ Also this is part 1 of a podcast "Philosophize This" that just came out a month ago : kzread.info/dash/bejne/Zoafr9CsZL2-mMY.html

Ph.D Wesly Cecil’s humorous lecturing style is fantastic that attracts the audience attention. At the same time, the way how he cohesively exhibits his serious understanding on any philosophers is unbelievable.

@markhunt4618

8 жыл бұрын

+oblong You sound like a barrel of laughs

Stepping into another's mind like this, can be the most unsettling.

Pascal's question was asked,"What makes our human experience have human value"? The professor asked the students to ponder on this then gave Weil's answer. The student response: Laughter, bar room laughter.

Another extraordinary female philosopher is Simone Weil. What a journey of her distinguished travels and insights. She was complicated and always searching for the truth I love her as I had to study her work to place myself "as if" in her shoes. Gravity and Space, Waiting for God, Abboltion of Political Parties. Those years of turbulence in her life as the world flames insane. She burned her way through it indeed. Get rid of religion, the world is irrational. We don't need more, we need less. (The human heart). We all are only human. Perfect 🥰 That spark of goodness that is sacred, that is grace. Capitalism did not work, socialism, fascism, what is left? You, with a heart for understanding human suffering

Very Well constructed and informative piece on Weil Wes, would like to hear a follow up on some of her insightful writings on gravity grace beauty etc

Thank you Wes

Bros her name is pronounce 'see mon vey'.

@jeromeThailande

5 жыл бұрын

Veil

@michaelteofilov9959

3 жыл бұрын

@@jeromeThailande nope

Simone Weil is the Greatest Woman and the Greatest Christian Philosopher of the 20th Century! Everything in her is so deep, real, authentic - she is a little New Jesus Christ! In Her magnificent philosophical work there is Christian Ontotheology, as well as Christian Ethics, Epistemology, Aesthetics and Infinite Love for the Truth - Jesus Christ! God bless Her! She is Divinely Pure and God-inspired in Everything!

@RocketKirchner

2 жыл бұрын

yes yes yes

Sometimes during Wes lectures I wonder if I’m watching a standup comedy LOL

We will remember Simone Weil long for her refined thinking on some big issues long after Wes Cecil departs this mortal coil. I therefore suggest that Wes Cecil develop a bit more respect for the ideas and work of others; in particular women.

@RocketKirchner

2 жыл бұрын

agreed . Jillian -- i first discovered her book ''Waiting on God '' and it blew me away . also - a great work of hers is '' The abolition of all political parties ''.

@maycan01

Жыл бұрын

At least he helps people like philosophy.

Dr. Cecil, This is a very poor review of Simone Weil's (See mun' Vay) life, politics and philosophy. She was raised as an intellectual with her mother, father and her brother, the famous mathematician Andrew Weil. She got the highest and not the second highest marks on her entrance exam to Ecole Normale' Superieur. After that she was a school teacher. She was most interested in the condition of the Common Person, his and her suffering. She hated the Bourgoisee concept and she vehemently denied her Jewishness sayin "I am French". Her brother Andrew was NOT smarter than Simone except that his talents were in mathematics. Otherwise, he was apolitical. She wanted the abolition of all political parties because she determined that politics was evil. I think her best works are "Gravity and Grace", "Waiting For God" and "On the Abolition of Political Parties". She did indeed participate in the Spanish Civil War on the Loyalist side. but as a scullery where she got injured and getting sent back to France. She worked in the Citroen automobile factory, but they found she could not operate any kind of machinery and was finally fired. She identified most greatly with the Catholic Church. Yes, Simone liked Buddhist philosophy and could read and write Sanskrit. Her comments to those she dismissed was "I do not accept your persona." The Catholic group that loves her most is the peace anarchist Catholic Worker Movement. Dr. Cecil, I find you very entertaining, but you are in no way qualified to lecture on Simone Weil.

@user-gn4kq9il4y

2 жыл бұрын

Dr. Cecil is an American, that is degenerated Puritan after 300 years of secularism, the students very not serious about life, because the religious life of the US in the college is meager, so no metaphysical philosophy will be understood, people are basically materialists, so no Christianity is there or spirituality, so death of philosophy, so examined life, so no dignified person in secular college in general in US. Socrates will fail here, because the Athenian citizens are cultured people, they join the tragedies and comedies, US is quite below that level. Happy pigs, as it were.

@PiceaSitchensis

2 жыл бұрын

Loyalist side? That seems like a very odd way to describe it. She fought with the anarchists, the CNT-FAI.

@PiceaSitchensis

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-gn4kq9il4y I wish the US had 300 years of secularism hahahaha. What did you smoke today?

@vijinanadu1962

2 жыл бұрын

@@PiceaSitchensis I am a Yogi,hence vegetarian,I presume you are one of the degenerate !

@juvenalhahne7750

Ай бұрын

De fato, a comédia começa por uma cumplicidade entre o comediante e a plateia que não tem nada a ver com os modernos espíritos revolucionários, todos contrários precisamente a falência geral do presente...

Waiting for God is now on my reading list.

No kidding! And if you're going to lecture on her then please, please pronounce her name properly!

What is the 'ism' he mentions Simone arrived at which meant 'God has left'?

@joesamyoung69

8 жыл бұрын

+Jack Coltman  Catharism

@jackcoltman

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks Joe

Your implied concept of faith falls outside of a wide spectrum of thinkers, from Richard Dawkins (a critic of the very idea of faith) to CS Lewis and a whole host of people between them. Faith is seen by all of them as sustained belief despite evidence to the contrary. I was also puzzled that you left out her refusal of baptism and the reasons behind it, which strongly reflect her ethical principles.

i can' t laugh when i think about her.

@paulrowan4421

3 жыл бұрын

What do you mean by that?

WWII ended for some in early '90s. Thanks to England escaping their fighting allies.

Good Grief!

The french kings didnt have bathroom they never washed but put powder and the chaise percée pearced chair was brought and taken away

pronounce it properly 'Weil- Vey'

Well, two mistakes in the first 5 minutes: end of WW2 1947 (WTF, excuse my French) and misnaming Weil as Beauvoir. I switched off... shame.

The professor sounds exactly like Kevin Costner haha. He is good though, I don't remember ever giving my professors applause

Not 45 but still raging wars , never ending stupidity and killing.

I just wanna be puuure!

This guy doesn't even know when WWII ended...

@sachinaraszkiewicz785

4 жыл бұрын

Actually, the end of WW2 is highly debatable. The Americans were done in '45, but much of East Europe and Asia was still on fire.

It's French ...Weil = Vay De bu va

@burnellking

5 жыл бұрын

VEIL not VAY! Oy vey! Simone W( double v) EIL !

@inb4play167

2 жыл бұрын

LeviOsa

If you want to learn about Simone Weil this probably shouldn't be your introduction. The speaker believed the Second World War ended in 1947 and had to be corrected by the audience; it didn't get better after that. We all have bad days and perhaps Mr. Cecil is a really great teacher, but this lecture did not go well at all...

@christopherm5958

5 жыл бұрын

I agree anything you can offer for someone just learning about Simone.?

@post-structuralist

Жыл бұрын

It's in bad faith to judge the entire lecture for just the first minute.

Weil (pronounced Vey).

@burnellking

5 жыл бұрын

VEIL... desolee mais je crois mieux placee pour repondre a ca.

WTF.press : When an American fahidiot konfabulates about Simone Weil ...

Full of inaccuracies

@matjazmazi8405

3 жыл бұрын

American "intelectuals" ... :-)

@xelaphilia

8 ай бұрын

@@matjazmazi8405 intellectuals is written with 2 l's

Too flippant.

Why have there never been any hot babe philosophers? WTF???

@TempestTheBlaze

8 жыл бұрын

Why does there have to be? Hegel wasn't particularly handsome.

@JohnVKaravitis

8 жыл бұрын

Mr. Nexus It's different if you're a MAN, and if YOU were a MAN, you'd know! Idiot!

@JohnVKaravitis

8 жыл бұрын

Mr. Nexus You sound like a butthurt little bitch.

@TempestTheBlaze

8 жыл бұрын

John Karavitis You sound like a stupid lil dumbass. What're you doing here anyways? Can you even read any of the texxt talked about on this channel

@JohnVKaravitis

8 жыл бұрын

Mr. Nexus Why you so BUTT-HURT, beeyatch?

Travesty....lock this lecturer up in the unworldly closet he came from.