THEO1016 Lecture Notes - Etty Hillesum, Gestapo, Apatheia
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Major themes: spiritual practices, eros and other loves, love of enemy, creativity and writing. Spiritual practices: kneeling: submitting to god, surrendering, she has to transition from possessiveness/control (willfulness) to dispossession or surrender/letting be (willingness) Her desire to eat and eat in excess goes with posessiveness: she is ashamed but embraces kneeling. She needs to find herself before she gives herself to god: detachment (apatheia, her moods. S. is a conduit for her self understanding. She works on observing them without being very affected by them. She gains perspective which leads to a subjective maturity. Quote: how rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner response. : stoic, turning within, to turn ones self into a vast empty plane is something that is learned, pg. Love of enemy: she must express love towards the gestapo. Hate isn"t worth it and she feels bad.
