Questions related to the works of the German-born American political theorist Hannah Arendt (1906 – 1975).
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How does Hannah Arendt define "freedom?"
Looking at this: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arendt/
By freedom Arendt does not mean the ability to choose among a set of possible alternatives (the freedom of choice so dear to the liberal tradition) or the faculty of liberum arbitrium…
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What is the difference between Modernity and Enlightenment?
I know several Enlightenment-era philosophers such as Smith and Locke were responsible for diminishing what Arendt calls "the realm of the political" and then they proceeded to reduce humans to their economic roles which Arendt says is a problem of…
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Will automation emancipate us from labour?
In the The Human Condition, Arendt writes:
The danger that the modern age's emancipation of labour will not only fail to usher in an age of freedom for all but will result, on the contrary, in forcing all mankind for the first time under the yoke…
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Would Hannah Arendt classify raking leaves each autumn as labour or work?
Hannah Arendt was a Holocaust survivor and philosopher. In her work, The Human Condition, she takes an interest in the understanding of human activities. From WP:
The Human Condition,1 first published in 1958, is Hannah Arendt's account of how…
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Does Aristotle Say That Household Slaves Could Not Be Dispensed With As Claimed by Arendt
In The Human Condition, Arendt claims that Aristotle says that sufficiently advanced technology would mean that the craftsman wouldn't require assistants but concedes that household slaves could never be dispensed with.
Hannah Arendt, The Human…
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Arendt on Factual Truth in "Truth and Politics"
I'm reading Hannah Arendt's "Truth and Politics" (1967). I thought I was getting it, but then I read two statements that to me, seem to be in conflict with one another:
"Factual truth, on the contrary, is always related to other people: it concerns…
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Is communism a religion?
In Arendts What is Authority she writes:
A convenient instance may be provided by the widespread conviction in the free world today that communism is a 'new religion'; notwithstanding its avowed atheism, because it fulfills socially,…
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Arendt : What is the main and intrisic purpose of diffferentiating between "labor" and "work"?
I started reading The Origins of Totalitarianism ( sorry no original book can not be inked to ) since I personally thought this book is explaining the current condition world wide today perhaps coincidentally.
Now, while it takes time to read the…
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which book is the most rigorous and comprehensive book of Arendt's pracitcal philosophy?
I read a book of Arendt, "Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy" because of the recommendation of a professor.
I'm interested in her theoretical structure of practical philosophy.
are there books of her which consist of thorough and comprehensive…
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Quote check: Hannah Arendt on ideology and capability to reason
I am searching the source and exact words for a quote from Hannah Arendt that I only vaguely remember:
Das Ziel totalitärer Systeme ist es nicht, die Menschen von der eigenen Ideology zu überzeugen. Vielmehr sollen sie unfähig sein, eigene…
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What does Hannah Arendt mean by 'Alienation from the World?'
In the introduction to Arendts book the Human Condition is the following:
In a development Arendt traces to "alienation from the world," modern, automated societies engrossed by ever more efficient production and consumption encourage us to behave…
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Why is freedom obscure for Arendt? How does she prove or illustrate such obscurity?
In her article "What is freedom" she says "The reason for this obscurity is that the phenomenon of freedom does not appear in the realm of thought at all, that neither freedom nor its opposite is experienced in the dialogue between me and myself..."…
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On Modernity, mass, and morality
Arendt, in her book The Human Condition identified the 'rise of the social' as part of the movement of modernity; this is an expansion of the private sphere of the household (oikos) into the public sphere (polis); the public sphere where action is…
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Should a deontic logic informed by Rawlsian/Arendtian considerations use plural quantifiers?
In A Theory of Justice (1999 ed., pg. 24), Rawls says:
The nature of the decision made by the ideal legislator is not, therefore, materially different from that of an entrepreneur deciding how to maximize his profit by producing this or that…
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Is there a modern country (21st century) that would be considered totalitarian under Arendt's account? If not, does that make her theory flawed?
I was wondering if there is any modern-day country that can be considered totalitarian according to Hannah Arendt (where the totalitarian regime is defined by its endless motion, total domination over individuals' private and public lives, and its…
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