Arendt, Hannah
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THE HUMAN CONDITION
SEE MARTIN HEIDEGGER

Personal Importance Of Hannah Arendt

  • She was a political theorist with incisive knowledge of the evolution of political ideas throughout history.
  • She was an insightlful philosopher, even though she disavowed this role.

Associative Importance Of Hannah Arendt

  • As a personal companion of Martin Heidegger, she supplies clear insights into features of his philosophy about which he was [perhaps deliberately] vague.
  • For instance, Heidegger refers obliquely to metaphysical versus ontological approaches. Arendt tells us we're talkin CONTEMPLATION vs ACTION.

Reversal of the Roles of Contemplation and Action

The Cartesian Doubt

  • Galileo's Thunderbolt

Internalization of the Archimedean Point

Evolution: The Lesser Causing The Greater

Christian Shift to the Individual as the Focus of Immortality

  • away from the Volk and the Body Politic
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