A pobreza e a graça: um estudo sobre o "malheur" e a experiência da graça na vida e no pensamento de Simone Weil

Abstract

Simone Weil, French philosopher of the first half of the 20th century, died young, 34 years old, but she had a deeply experience marked of the commitment with the philosophical study in the search for truth and by solidarity with the oppressed. She was faithful to her existential and philosophical purpose. She felt in her flesh the degraded suffering of existence and she felt touched by God s grace in which she found the truth and reason of love to sufferers. This suffering touches all dimensions of human existence, she called malheur. Our study is about how malheur and the grace are present in the life and thought of Simone Weil from letters and essays that she wrote and which are in the book Attente de Dieu. We tried to understand these two categories and we notice that they are concepts articulated philosophically that allow us to make a link between what Simone Weil lived and thought. Malheur and grace are worked in a conceptual and experiential form. They have in their bases the real life and the philosophical argument. We started understanding Simone s work and the elucidation of important moment of her life. After we showed the understanding of her letters and essays. We concluded that the concepts of malheur and grace are fundamental categories in the religious-philosophical thought of Simone Weil and they do a link between religious experience, philosophical knowledge and existential practice