Introducing Mystical Experience into the Notions of Politics
Abstract
Faced with the opposition of good and evil according to irreligious or idolatrous methods, Weil proposes another method, mysticism. The mystical experience provokes a transposition to a higher level of what the philosopher thinks, especially in the political field. This article therefore seeks to refute the erroneous ways in which the question of the relationship between mysticism and politics is closed.
The path taken by the philosopher in her analysis of literature helps to understand her position in the political field, but the analysis of the 'specific spirituality' of war reveals the difficulty of thinking the relationship between the spiritual and action.
The way out of the difficulty encountered is to move, 'by dint of art', to the side of the 'true relationship' between the reign of necessity and an inextinguishable aspiration to the Good. On the action side, the "Project for the training of front-line nurses" should be re-examined. On the literary side, Venice Saved illustrates this effort to manifest a truth that it is the poet's task to present.
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