emotion, disequilibrium and attentive compassion

confronting emotions in the community of philosophical inquiry with simone weil & ann margaret sharp

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/childphilo.2025.89714

Palabras clave:

simone weil, atención, indagación, compasión, emoción

Resumen

La expresión de las emociones dentro de la Comunidad de Investigación Filosófica (CIF) puede resultar difícil. A pesar de la insistencia de Matthew Lipman en que las emociones son elecciones y juicios, puede existir una tendencia a confundir la racionalidad de la CIF con un espacio de racionalidad libre de emociones. Cuando se teoriza sobre los sentimientos en la CIF, a menudo se interpretan a nivel general como sentimientos colectivos atmosféricos que los facilitadores pueden «comprobar» al final o al principio de una sesión. Sin embargo, la realidad dentro de las CIF es muy diferente. Las emociones pueden surgir de repente, lo que dificulta su negociación para el facilitador. Teorizamos que, en lugar de pedir empatía, estos momentos requieren compasión, basándonos en las ideas de Simone Weil y Ann Margaret Sharp. Teorizar sobre las negociaciones de las contribuciones emocionales en la investigación con Sharp y Weil nos recuerda el riesgo de interpretar de forma reduccionista a otras personas cuyas emociones y situaciones son radicalmente diferentes a las nuestras. Su explicación nos proporciona recursos para explicar cómo la CIF productivo explora las emociones de forma conjunta. En particular, Simone Weil apoya nuestra explicación de la compasión atenta hacia el mundo del otro, para explorar teóricamente lo que ocurre entre los participantes en una CIF fructífera cuando se expresan las emociones. Para ello, tomamos la explicación de Sharp sobre la CIF, que, en nuestra opinión, está profundamente inspirada en su lectura de Weil. Este artículo enmarca el fenómeno de la emoción expresada en la comunidad a través de ejemplos prácticos, ofrece una explicación de la compasión atenta a través de los recientes estudios sobre Weil y la aplica a la CIF para enmarcarla como un espacio de compasión atenta.

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Biografía del autor/a

michela dianetti, University of Galway

  Researcher and part-time lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Galway, did her post-doc in the ‘Critical Thinking in Communities of Inquiry’ project at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics. Her PhD research developed a literary ethics of attention grounded in the philosophies of Simone Weil and Iris Murdoch, applying them to the literary work of Elsa Morante. She integrates art and literature into her CPI practice with a focus on how this space can foster attention.

lucy elvis, university of galway, ireland

Lecturer in philosophy at the University of Galway, founder of Curo Thinking for Communities, a not-for-profit that focuses on empowering groups to think philosophically together in non-formal educational contexts from music festivals to art galleries and libraries and an art writer. Her research and teaching focuses on the power of art and of philosophical thinking to enrich human life.

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Publicado

2025-08-31

Cómo citar

DIANETTI, Michela; ELVIS, Lucy. emotion, disequilibrium and attentive compassion: confronting emotions in the community of philosophical inquiry with simone weil & ann margaret sharp. childhood & philosophy, Rio de Janeiro, v. 21, p. 01–20, 2025. DOI: 10.12957/childphilo.2025.89714. Disponível em: https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/childhood/article/view/89714. Acesso em: 30 sep. 2025.

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dossier: “philosophy with children across boundaries”