Arendt, Hannah
WIKIPEDIA
THE HUMAN CONDITION
SEE MARTIN HEIDEGGER
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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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