NOTES ON METAXY AND HARMONY OF CONTRARIES IN SIMONE WEIL

Abstract

A central element in the ontology of Simone Weil is the correlation between the absoluteness of truth and its human destination. Philosophy is thinking in the “entre”, while Platonically respecting the subsisting distance between “the essence of the necessary and that of the good” and, in a certain way inhabiting that distance. This article proposes some notes related to the mythic dimension, which is a privileged space of correlation between the absoluteness of truth and its human destination; related to the theme of the beautiful, as the place where “reality” emerges; and, finally, related to the conception of metaxy and the possibility of conceiving the harmony of contraries.

Keyword: Simone Weil. Philosophy of between. Metaxy. Myth. Ontology of mediation. Harmony of contraries.