Self-purification and social dramatization; from simone weil to martin luther king jr

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    The principal focus of this article is Simone Weil`s Human Personality, published in the late winter and early spring of 1942-1943. To relieve ourselves from sin, the authors must "become impersonal"; that is, the authors must yield to God, to an "anonymous" force, which "purges" from the minds and hearts all sorts of frantic passions that (often explicitly) encourage moral transgressions (otherwise known as hubris).1 Impersonality inspires love (Weil 2005a, p 292), which Weil associates with respect and selfless devotion to social justice (pp. 139-40). His emphasis on nonviolence, forgiveness . . .

     

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