Single Idea 23881

[catalogued under 1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined]

Full Idea

All reflections bearing on the notion of value and on the hierarchy of values is philosophical; all efforts of thought bearing on anything other than value are, if one examines them closely, foreign to philosophy.

Gist of Idea

All thought about values is philosophical, and thought about anything else is not philosophy

Source

Simone Weil (Reflections on Value [1941], p.30)

Book Reference

Weil,Simone: 'Late Philosophical Writings' [Notre Dame 2015], p.30


A Reaction

If nothing else proves that Weil is a platonist, this does. She, of course, has a transcendent and religious view of values, whereas I just see them as concepts which embody what is important. That said, I'm not far off agreeing with this.