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Samantha Rose Hill on Hannah Arendt on Pluralism

Philosophy Bites

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Thinking and Acting Are Not the Same Thing for Her

When you engage in the two and one dialogue, you split up inthe two. You have to be in harmony with yourself. And then when you go back out into the world, you pare yourself into one being who appears before others. So thinking and acting are not the same thing for her. An arant knows that. There's no certain way to prevent people from doing evil or making decisions that can harm others. But there's, i think, a kind of platonic faith. Evil is unthinking in that sense that we can't meditate, we can't reflect on evil. For arnt, evil isn't something we can contemplate. If ikman had been

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