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Simone Weil

1909 - 1943

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Simone Adolphine Weil ( VAY; French: [simɔn adɔlfin vɛj]; 3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943) was a French philosopher, mystic and political activist. Despite her short life, her ideas concerning religion, spirituality, and politics have remained widely influential in contemporary philosophy. She was born in Paris to an Alsatian Jewish family. Her elder brother, André, would later become a renowned mathematician. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Simone Weil is the 130th most popular philosopher (down from 118th in 2019), the 290th most popular biography from France (down from 244th in 2019) and the 13th most popular French Philosopher.

Simone Weil is most famous for her essay "The Iliad, or the Poem of Force" which discusses the power of violence.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Simone Weil ranks 130 out of 1,267. Before her are Willard Van Orman Quine, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Marsilio Ficino, Chanakya, Pyrrho, and Anaximenes of Miletus. After her are Joseph Priestley, John Wycliffe, Johann Friedrich Herbart, Martin Buber, Zygmunt Bauman, and Giambattista Vico.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Simone Weil ranks 5. Before her are Stepan Bandera, Eugène Ionesco, Nicholas Winton, and Juliana of the Netherlands. After her are Osamu Dazai, James Mason, Edward Tatum, Mohammed Daoud Khan, U Thant, Francis Bacon, and Andrei Gromyko. Among people deceased in 1943, Simone Weil ranks 9. Before her are Sergei Rachmaninoff, Pieter Zeeman, Karl Landsteiner, George Washington Carver, Camille Claudel, and Isoroku Yamamoto. After her are Henrik Pontoppidan, Leslie Howard, Boris III of Bulgaria, Henri La Fontaine, Theodor Eicke, and Sophie Scholl.

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In France

Among people born in France, Simone Weil ranks 290 out of 6,770. Before her are Henry I of France (1008), Georges Clemenceau (1841), Jean-Luc Godard (1930), Eugène de Beauharnais (1781), Louis Bonaparte (1778), and Hugues de Payens (1074). After her are Raymond Poincaré (1860), Paul Signac (1863), Vincent de Paul (1581), Jules Massenet (1842), Georges Méliès (1861), and Carlo Buonaparte (1746).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Simone Weil ranks 13. Before her are Peter Abelard (1079), Roland Barthes (1915), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809), Jean Bodin (1530), Gilles Deleuze (1925), and Henri de Saint-Simon (1760). After her are Charles Fourier (1772), Paul Ricœur (1913), Marquis de Condorcet (1743), Jean Buridan (1295), Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709), and Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908).

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