This thinker defined force as “that x which turns anybody who is subjected to it into a thing” in an essay that frames the Iliad as either a mirror or a historical document. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this French philosopher of The Iliad, or the Poem of Force whose letters to Father Perrin were collected posthumously in Waiting for God.
ANSWER: Simone Weil (“vay”) [or Simone Adolphine Weil]
[10m] Two answers required. In The Iliad, Weil claims one of these two figures “loses his whole inner life” and only weeps at the other’s misfortune. Loss of distinction between these two figures in a struggle for recognition would cause the end of history according to Alexandre Kojève’s discussion of The Phenomenology of Spirit.
ANSWER: masters AND slaves [accept lords in place of “masters”; accept servants or bondsmen in place of “slaves”; accept master–slave dialectic or master–servant dialectic or lord–bondsman dialectic]
[10e] Weil states the only character in the Iliad never to bow his head to the force of another man is this Greek hero, who races a tortoise in one of Zeno’s paradoxes.
ANSWER: Achilles [or Achilleus; accept Achilles and the Tortoise]
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