PHILOS 1E03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Simone Weil, Negative And Positive Rights
21 Feb 2017
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Readings 13 simone weil the needs of the soul . The idea of obligations come before any ideas of rights . Rights are subordinate to obligations: they are only effective when under a certain obligation. It is not rational to believe that rights and obligations are separate; they are fully related: we cannot have one without the other, rights and obligations express different points of view. The idea of rights are inseparable from reality: rights are related to certain conditions, differently, obligations are independent from conditions. The fact that a human being possesses an eternal destiny imposes one important obligation: respect: can only be done through a man"s earthly needs, correspondingly, all obligations towards human beings should correspond to their human needs. There are different kinds of human needs: the physical ones (ex hunger, the moral ones, both form necessary conditions to our life. Moral needs are harder to recognize than physical ones, but we all recognize that they exist.
