西蒙娜·薇依(Simone Weil,1909年2月3日-1943年8月23日)出生在巴黎一个文化教养很高的富裕的犹太中产阶级家庭。在亨利四世中学曾受教于当时著名法国哲学家阿兰(E.A.Chartier dit Alain 1868——1951)门下,深受其影响。
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西蒙娜·薇依
于1928年考入巴黎高等师范学院从事哲学学习研究。在高师学习期间,她接触了马克思主义和工团主义,对社会问题、劳苦工农以及受压迫的底层人民苦难有着天生的感受。毕业后,她担任几所中学的哲学教师,积极参加各种社会政治活动并重新反思马克思主义和劳动压迫苦难等问题。1934年后她开始从自己的亲身经历与感受出发来思考她的时代问题:贫困、不平等、弱者所受到的屈辱、专制权力与官僚制度对精神的摧残。为了对苦难有切实和真正的体验,1934年她辞去了教职,亲自到工厂中与工人一起从事重体力劳动。首先到艾士顿的五金厂工作,后来转到布朗吉的一间工厂,最后转到巴黎郊外的一家工厂,1936年她志愿加入西班牙战争,到了巴塞罗那。后来因意外事件不得不退伍,转而到一间葡萄园工作,在此期间,虽然她的健康一直不好,但他从未中断从事重体力的苦工劳动。早在1935年,她在葡萄牙的一个海边小村庄中就曾经历了精神上的洗礼,在一个夜晚,带着她自称“工厂生活在我身上留下了奴役性的永久烙印,正像古罗马人在最卑贱的奴隶额头上用烧红的烙铁打上的烙印一样”这样糟糕的心态和身体状态,她独自一人来到海边,听着渔夫的妻子儿女手持烛火围绕着渔船列队在唱古老的感恩歌曲,被亮得让人怆然涕下。她心里猛然体会到:“基督教实在是奴隶们最好的宗教,奴隶们不可能不信基督教,而我就是这些人中的一个。”但这并没有标明她皈依基督教信仰,与基督相遇。因此我觉得有些学者把此次心灵的醒悟作为她信仰的开始是不对的。两年之后,在亚西西的小教堂中,基督又一次召唤了她,“平生第一次感到有某种身不由己的东西迫使我跪倒在地。”但直到1938年,她参加了在索雷姆的修院中复活周所有的宗教礼仪活动,在整个活动中,她感受到了“纯洁的欢乐”,同时“更好的理解在不幸中有可能热爱神圣的爱”。终于在这次活动后“基督受难的思想自然而然的永远在我脑中扎根”。从此,薇依成为了一名独特的基督的门徒。
Simone Adolphine Weil (/veɪ/; French: [simɔn vɛj] (About this soundlisten); 3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943) was a French philosopher, mystic, and political activist. The mathematician André Weil was her brother.
After her graduation from formal education, Weil became a teacher. She taught intermittently throughout the 1930s, taking several breaks due to poor health and to devote herself to political activism, work that would see her assisting in the trade union movement, taking the side of the Anarchists known as the Durruti Column in the Spanish Civil War, and spending more than a year working as a labourer, mostly in auto factories, so she could better understand the working class.
Taking a path that was unusual among twentieth-century left-leaning intellectuals, she became more religious and inclined towards mysticism as her life progressed. Weil wrote throughout her life, though most of her writings did not attract much attention until after her death. In the 1950s and 1960s, her work became famous in continental Europe and throughout the English-speaking world. Her thought has continued to be the subject of extensive scholarship across a wide range of fields. A meta study from the University of Calgary found that between 1995 and 2012 over 2,500 new scholarly works had been published about her. Albert Camus described her as "the only great spirit of our times".