An economic theorists' reading of Simone Weil

Economics and Philosophy 24 (2):191-204 (2008)
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In Economics individuals are defined by their preferences over the consequences of their own actions and the actions carried out by others. In contrast, Simone Weil depicts the individual as continuously re-constituted by the contact that he establishes with reality via his action. Such an action is aimed at achieving an effect in the physical world, but what makes it human is not success per se, but rather the fact that it stems from reasoning and planning. Affliction is caused by effort carried out mechanically like that of a beast of burden, when the individual has no opportunity to exercise reason for choosing how to confront reality's ever-challenging hazards and necessity

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Simone Weil: "The Just Balance".Peter Winch - 1989 - New York: Cambridge University Press.

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