Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906 – December 04, 1975) What he said was always the same, expressed in the same words. The longer one listened to him, the more obvious it became that his inability to speak was closely connected with an inability to think, namely, to think from the standpoint of somebody else. No …
Hannah Arendt On Knowledge
Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906 – December 04, 1975) The very concept of an unlimited progress, which accompanied the rise of modern science, and has remained its dominant inspiring principle, is the best documentation of the fact that all science still moves within the realm of common sense experience, subject to corrigible error and deception. …
Hannah Arendt On Meaning And Truth
Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906 – December 04, 1975) The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy, taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.
Hannah Arendt On Thinking
Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906 – December 04, 1975) What are we “doing” when we do nothing but think? Where are we when we, normally always surrounded by our fellow-men, are together with no one but ourselves? By posing the unanswerable questions of meaning, men establish themselves as question-asking beings. Behind all the cognitive …
Hannah Arendt On Pursuit Of Happiness
Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906 – December 04, 1975) Among the many surprises this country holds in store for its new citizens… there is the amazing discovery that the “pursuit of happiness,” which the Declaration of Independence asserted to be one of the inalienable human rights, has remained to this day considerably more than a …
Hannah Arendt On Tyranny
Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906 – December 04, 1975) Tyranny, according to ancient, pre-theoretical understanding, was the form of government in which the ruler had monopolized for himself the right of action and banished the citizens from the public realm into the privacy of the household where they were supposed to mind their own, private …
Hannah Arendt On Silent Intercourse
Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906 – December 04, 1975) A person who does not know that silent intercourse (in which we examine what we say and what we do) will not mind contradicting himself, and this means he will never be either able or willing to account for what he says or does; nor will …
Hannah Arendt On Oblivion
Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906 – December 04, 1975) The holes of oblivion do not exist. Nothing human is that perfect, and there are simply too many people in the world to make oblivion possible. One man will always be left alive to tell the story.
