School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry Philosophy Seminar Hannah Arendt on Thinking and Simone Weil on Attention, Kim Solin, University of Queensland.

Event Details

Date:

Friday, 08 May 2015

Time:

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Room:

Room E302

UQ Location:

Forgan Smith Building (St Lucia)

Event category(s):

Full Description:: The concept of thinking is central to Hannah Arendt’s work, and the concept of attention is central to Simone Weil’s work. But what did these two philosophers actually understand by thinking and attention, respectively? In the talk, I shall attempt to show that they seem to be talking about the same thing, and that there are moral dimensions to both concepts.