Simone Weil: la natura come modello di obbedienza a Dio

Simone Weil's conception of nature is complex and evolves over the years, changing depending on the perspectives from which she sees and considers it. Initially, his reflection on nature appears marked by a feeling of estrangement, of separation, a legacy of the Cartesian and Kantian philosophical training received by Alain. Subsequently, in the period of his political commitment, it becomes more complicated through a conception of work in which contact with the material reality external to the subject is conceived as what forces him to emerge from himself, from abstract imagination, to come into contact with the world and with the necessity that structures it. Finally, in the theological speculations of recent years around the God-Man-Nature relationship, its position seems almost reversed compared to the beginning in the conception of matter as a model of obedience for man and as an intermediary between creator and creature.