ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses Weil’s criticisms of personalism and of an ethics of rights, given in her essay on Human Personality, and compares them with similar ideas of Levinas and Derrida. All three thinkers aimed to address the moral and spiritual neglect of actual human beings by a universalistic moral philosophy of humanity. A central place will be given in this examination to the Levinasian/Derridian concept of hospitality, which, I propose, could better express Weil’s intent than her concept of attention.
