For 10 points, name this woman who died during World War Two after refusing to eat more than a soldier's rations, a French mystic.
This thinker attempted to tackle the problem of miracles by comparing religion to science, stating that an observation that goes against the laws of nature might occur because we do not fully comprehend those laws. Â This thinker distinguished between the destruction of the self by external factors, which prevents the destruction of the self from within through belief in God, in a work that was edited by Gustave Thibon, (*) Gravity and Grace. Â This thinker discussed the use of force in the Iliad in one essay, and she outlined how people became disconnected from their communities and their environment, which she dubbed uprootedness, in her book The Need for Roots. Â For 10 points, name this woman who died during World War Two after refusing to eat more than a soldier's rations, a French mystic.
This thinker attempted to tackle the problem of miracles by comparing religion to science, stating that an observation that goes against the laws of nature might occur because we do not fully comprehend those laws.
Simone Weil