Simone Weil's Le ons de Philosophie are derived from a course she taught at the lyc e for girls at Roanne in 1933-4. Anne Reynaud-Gu rithault was a pupil in the class; her notes are not a verbatim record but are a very full and, as far as one can judge, faithful rendering, often catching the unmistakable tone of Simone Weil's voice as well as the force and the directness of her thought. The lectures form a good general introduction to philosophy,...