A British admirer of this thinker used the example of someone being “unselfed” by the sight of a kestrel outside their window to illustrate this thinker’s concept of “decreation.” A book by this thinker compares social institutions that deceive the conscience to Plato’s “Great Beast,” but allows that “earthly blessings” like home and country can be metaxu (“meh-tax-YEW”) connecting humans to the divine. Iris Murdoch drew on this thinker’s prioritization of moral “attention” over will. This thinker argued that rights should be grounded in “obligations” to address modern déracinement (“day-rah-seen-MON”), or uprootedness. This author of “The Iliad, or The Poem of Force” and The Need for Roots attempted to fight for the Spanish Republic and Free France before her death from tuberculosis and self-starvation at age 34. For 10 points, Gravity and Grace is by what French mystic philosopher? ■END■
ANSWER: Simone Weil (“vay”)
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