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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 Ref
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.
| 23881 | All thought about values is philosophical, and thought about anything else is not philosophy [Weil] |
| 23883 | Minds essentially and always strive towards value [Weil] |
| 23882 | Ends, unlike means, cannot be defined, which is why people tend to pursue means [Weil] |
| 23884 | Truth is a value of thought [Weil] |
| 23885 | Philosophy aims to change the soul, not to accumulate knowledge [Weil] |
| 23886 | Systems are not unique to each philosopher. The platonist tradition is old and continuous [Weil] |