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Single Idea 23846
[filed under theme 24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 5. Culture
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Full Idea
Culture - as we know it - is an instrument manipulated by teachers for manufacturing more teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.
Gist of Idea
Culture is an instrument for creating an ongoing succession of teachers
Source
Simone Weil (The Need for Roots [1943], II 'Towns')
Book Ref
Weil,Simone: 'The Need for Roots' [Routledge 2002], p.68
A Reaction
Lot of truth in this. We tend to view our greatest successes in students who become academics and teachers. Culture is very much seen as something which must be 'transmitted' to each new generation.
The
21 ideas
from 'The Need for Roots'
23843
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Even the poorest should feel collective ownership, and participation in grand display
[Weil]
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23841
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By making money the sole human measure, inequality has become universal
[Weil]
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23837
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Respect is our only obligation, which can only be expressed through deeds, not words
[Weil]
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23835
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People have duties, and only have rights because of the obligations of others to them
[Weil]
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23836
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Obligations only bind individuals, not collectives
[Weil]
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23839
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A lifelong head of society should only be a symbol, not a ruler
[Weil]
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23842
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Party politics in a democracy can't avoid an anti-democratic party
[Weil]
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23838
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The need for order stands above all others, and is understood via the other needs
[Weil]
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23840
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A citizen should be able to understand the whole of society
[Weil]
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23848
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The aesthete's treatment of beauty as amusement is sacreligious; beauty should nourish
[Weil]
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23850
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The soldier-civilian distinction should be abolished; every citizen is committed to a war
[Weil]
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23849
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Religion should quietly suffuse all human life with its light
[Weil]
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23846
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Culture is an instrument for creating an ongoing succession of teachers
[Weil]
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23847
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Socialism tends to make a proletariat of the whole population
[Weil]
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23845
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The capitalists neglect the people and the nation, and even their own interests
[Weil]
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23844
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The most important human need is to have multiple roots
[Weil]
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23851
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Education is essentially motivation
[Weil]
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23854
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Beauty is the proof of what is good
[Weil]
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23853
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Truth is not a object we love - it is the radiant manifestation of reality
[Weil]
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23852
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To punish people we must ourselves be innocent - but that undermines the desire to punish
[Weil]
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23855
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Creation produced a network or web of determinations
[Weil]
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