Simone Weil: Thinking the Balance between Love and Justice

Published: 22024-12-30 — Updated on 2025-01-02

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Vol. 55 (2024)

Simone Weil: Thinking the Balance between Love and Justice

María del Sol Romano

Gdańsk Studies

Section: Artykuły

https://doi.org/10.26142/stgd-2024-017

Abstract

This article aims to explore some of the reflections of the French philosopher Simone Weil on justice, particularly in its relation to love. The author distinguishes two kinds of justice: natural and supernatural. On the one hand, through natural justice, two wills that maintain a balance of strength are made to coincide and come to an understanding. But when the strength between two parties is unequal, the will of the strong must be imposed upon the weak. It is, on the other hand, through supernatural justice that, in an unequal relationship of strength, the one who is inhabited by this virtue –which is identified with love and is a divine gift– does not impose his will upon the weak but behaves as if there were equality between them.

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Compassion, love, natural justice, Simone Weil, supernatural justice

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Romano, M. del S. (2025). Simone Weil: Thinking the Balance between Love and Justice. Gdańsk Studies, 55, 84–92. https://doi.org/10.26142/stgd-2024-017 (Original work published December 30, 2024)

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