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Full Idea
Anyone whose attention and love are directed towards the reality outside the world recognises that he is bound by the permanent obligation to remedy …all the privations of soul and body which are liable to destroy or damage any human being whatsoever.
Gist of Idea
Attention to a transcendent reality motivates a duty to foster the good of humanity
Source
Simone Weil (Draft Statement of Human Obligations [1943], p.225)
Book Ref
Weil,Simone: 'An Anthology' [Penguin 1986], p.225
A Reaction
[abridged] An interesting attempt to articulate the religious motivation of morality. The Euthyphro question remains - of why this vision of a wholly good higher morality should motivate anyone, unless they already possess a desire for that good.