History, reason, action. The question of law in the thought of E. Weil

In the context of a world bound to be conscious of its historical character , E. Weil tries to raise anew the Aristotelian question of what is just "by nature." At a distance from whatever essentialist fixation, law plays in h is presentation the role of a judgement of reason grounded (always) in fini tude: between moral foundation and positive translation, between social reg ulation and political discernment, between abstract globalization and a uni versalisation rich of meaning. This indispensable institution of freedom do es not require a foundation in the Absolute spirit (as in Hegel), but maybe it is compatible with the original right of the other human being (undersc ored by Levinas).