Simone Weil
French philosopher (1909–1943)
Summary
Simone Adolphine Weil was a French philosopher, mystic and political activist. Despite her short life, her ideas concerning religion, spirituality and politics have remained widely influential in contemporary philosophy.
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Lack of parallel structure, i.e., "allows for obedience" is a noun phrase, which then usually expects following phrases to also be nouns, but instead we are given a verb phrase: "not feel cheated(...)". Updated the syntax to accommodate this. An even clearer version might be "Decreation allows one to obey the truth without feeling cheated or seeking compensation." but I did not wish to significantly alter the tone of the article.
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[[WP:CVPI|WP:Interceptor]]: Reverting non-constructive edits by [[Special:Contributions/~2026-19292-09|~2026-19292-09]]
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