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Full Idea
For the mind essentially and always, in whatever manner it is disposed, strives towards value.
Gist of Idea
Minds essentially and always strive towards value
Source
Simone Weil (Reflections on Value [1941], p.31)
Book Ref
Weil,Simone: 'Late Philosophical Writings' [Notre Dame 2015], p.31
A Reaction
A typically platonist thought. If you accept my view that values identify what is important, the thought is plausible. We might distinguish between what the mind pointlessly entertains, and what it 'strives' for.
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