Ideas from 'Is There a Marxist Doctrine?' by Simone Weil [1943], by Theme Structure
[found in 'Oppression and Liberty' by Weil,Simone [Routledge 1955,978-0-415-25407-6]].
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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth
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Most people won't question an idea's truth if they depend on it
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20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / d. Weakness of will
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Weakness of will is the inadequacy of the original impetus to carry through the action
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22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention
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In a violent moral disagreement, it can't be that both sides are just following social morality
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25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 1. War / b. Justice in war
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When war was a profession, customary morality justified any act of war
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