But because of the nature of human beings, power over them will never be stable. The race for power enslaves everybody, strong and weak alike. I t would constitute for each human being what he was most essentially in need of if his life is to take on of itself a meaning and a value in his own eyes. The good represents God. In Weil's view it should be the single unifying force in man, and it should tie our society together.
Necessity is a more complex idea.
It involves several sorts of relations between the created world and God. It represents the natural forces surrounding the world. There are varying degrees of necessity. Everything is necessary in some degree if its loss really causes a decrease in vital energy. These are two important underlying themes throughout her works.