Eric Weil
See also: Weil
Eric Weil is a French philosopher, emigrant of Beyond the rhine. He was born in the Mecklembourg in 1904 and he died in Nice on February 1st 1977.
From the Baltic in the Mediterranean, it followed a continuous and however chaotic way, unceasingly integrating its reactions into the historical events and thus instigating its philosophical convictions. After having read Mein Kampf, it made in all clearness the decision to leave the Germany if ever the latter chose Hitler for führer. As of 1933, it is lived to propose, at the same time as the scenario writer Fritz Lang, to collaborate in the ministry for the Culture and the Propaganda of Goebbels. Both then took the first train for France.
As of his arrival in France, Eric Weil, exiled, lived a material situation of most precarious. He was likely however to attend some eminent French philosophers like Raymond Aron, Alexandre Koyré and Alexandre Kojève. It is while taking part in the seminar of Kojève on Hegel that it contributed to renew the reading of Hegel in France. It published in this intention, in 1950, a summary of its thesis Hegel and the State where it makes litter of the false idea according to which Hegel would have been the admiror of the Prussian State of his time. In fact, which Hegel considered under the name of “modern State” rather represents a critic of the too pale reflection of the French revolution which was the Prussian State. The analysis of Eric Weil shows that if freedom could not be achieved without State, this last does not fulfill its function that if it guarantees the existence of freedom to each one.
Meanwhile, Eric Weil had obtained in 1938 French nationality. It is after its demobilization and its return of captivity that it was recruited by the School of the high studies, entered to CNRS and founded the Critique review with Alexandre Koyré. It developed the idea to with it that the future of the teaching of philosophy consists in passing from the indefinite singular in the plural definite: philosophy with philosophies. He is to some extent the inventor of a reasonable pluralism which only manages to exceed the thesis skeptic according to which the truth does not exist, and the thesis according to which the ambition of truth animates nevertheless the philosophical speech. He wrote political Philosophie.
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