Single Idea 23757

[catalogued under 25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 1. Basis of justice]

Full Idea

Because affliction and truth need the same kind of attention …the spirit of justice and the spirit of truth are one. The spirit of justice and truth is nothing else be a certain kind of attention, which is pure love.

Gist of Idea

The spirit of justice needs the full attention of truth, and that attention is love

Source

Simone Weil (Human Personality [1943], p.92)

Book Reference

Weil,Simone: 'An Anthology' [Penguin 1986], p.92


A Reaction

I'm not sure about this as an observation, but as an inspiration it is very appealing, and (as so often with Weil) strikingly and attractively independent. I prefer love to arise naturally, rather than be a product of exhortation.