Essays on Hannah Arendt

Since the dawn of our human civilization, people have been trying to find the most effective way of building their behavior. Historically, the patterns of people’s activity have been directly connected to the society itself. Therefore, the social and political utility of the human operations is one of the determining factors. As a result, the behavior of the community, formed by the patterns of personalities, has become an extremely complex system of reasons and consequence. Hannah Arendt addresses the topic of the human being’s behavior in the context of the political history. The Human Condition is her ...

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Hanna Arendt is a one of the philosophers whose viewpoints have been given greater accords and consideration. In fact, her contributions to the field of political philosophy are immense, and she made outstanding manifestation in delivering critical lessons and concepts about the worldviews about politics, power, and its associated influence. Therefore, it is essential to have sure understanding on the Arendt’s philosophical thoughts and perspectives before delving into the book, “Crisis of a Republic”. Arendt philosophy is anchored on the emphasis on maintaining a meaningful distinction among various concepts of “strength,” “power,” “authority”, and “violence,” besides the need ...

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Introduction American democracy is perceived either positively or negatively by political philosophers. The political philosopher, Hannah Arendt expresses her admiration towards the American model of democracy commending it for its ideals on republicanism, separation of power and federalism (Arendt 267). There are, however, serious flaws with Arendt’s perception of American democracy, which can be summed up in three areas. First, Arendt failed to look deeper into the how the American democracy emerged, which makes her analysis out of context. Secondly, Arendt failed to analyze the impact of slavery towards the American democratic ideals, specifically the impact ...

Hannah Arendt (Oct.14, 1906 - Dec. 4, 1975) was a German born American philosopher. The subject of her works is the nature of power. They deal also with politics, authority, direct democracy, and totalitarianism. Her best work Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) gives full retrospection of the phenomenon totalitarianism. She followed it to the anti-Semitism in the nineteenth century, imperialism, and the decomposition of the traditional nation-state. Her flowing style of writing allows even the non-professional readers to apprehend her ideas and to ask themselves questions as how far can man go in losing the possibility to distinguish what is ...

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Consistent with the accepted Marxist record of power, mastery is seen on the model of class abuse; command results from the entrepreneur allotment of the surplus esteem that is prepared by the laborers. As a lot of people second wave feminist pundits of Marx have brought up, on the other hand, Marx's classifications are sex blind. Marx overlooks the routes in which class abuse and sexual orientation subordination are interwoven; on the grounds that he centers singularly on financial processing, Marx disregards ladies' regenerative work in the home and the misuse of this work in businessperson modes of preparation. As ...

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Besides being a way of thinking, human rights are also a set of political and legal doctrines. These doctrines limit the government power to shape citizens expectations. As such, they benefit ascribe behaviors and proscribe others. The structure of human rights reflects meticulous historical milieu out of which they have evolved and their contours have stretched and changed with the erratic landscape of global society. The general awareness of human rights was gradually formed on the existence of rights that are inherent in all human beings. These rights pre-exist and are superior to the State and all political affiliations. The universal ...

The countries that were defeated in the World War I, and especially Germany, had additional reasons for the rise of fascism. One of them was a sense of humiliation experienced by the nation due to payment of reparations to victorious countries for the damage caused, which in official propaganda and in everyday life was regarded as the greatest shame of the German nation, which could be cleaned only by a new blood. Fascist leaders successfully used this moment and deliberately fueled the revanchist sentiment. In Germany, which suffered from the crisis stronger than other countries, intensified the revolutionary movement. As a result, ...

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Rhetoric in its wider sense, deals with persuasion and the various modes of persuasion which is kind of factual demonstration. Rhetoric is the identification of the means and ends of achieving effective persuasion, be it at now or in the future. Human condition makes its mind to perceive demonstrations as more convincing and persuasive. Therefore, speech helps with delivery of information by employing words, phrases and rhetoric questions. The conceptual arguments used in speech, determine the general logical dialect in demonstration thereby helping to bring out persuasion. It is more important that any speaker should know that whether ...