Hannah Arendt
In Our Time: Philosophy
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Action and Pluralism - What's Your Discipline?
Only in action can we really reveal who we are as opposed to what we are as human beings. She always says I'm a storyteller, which is a way of getting out of difficult questions about what is your discipline exactly and how do you do that? Well there's a wonderful passage in the Human Condition where she talks about the great storybook of mankind. So it's a sense that even though we're authors of our own stories, we don't know what's going to happen to the meaning of those stories. And that's how plurality seems to be so intimately connected to action because we need the presence of others to acknowledge our fine deeds and living words. To tell our stories
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