Hannah Arendt
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Hannah Arendt on social science functionalism
I don't believe that atheism is a substitute for or can fulfill the same function as religion, any more than I believe that violence can become a substitute for authority. But if we follow the exhortations of conservatives, who, at this moment, have a pretty good chance of being heard, I am all for Continue reading
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Hannah Arendt on human life
Modern theories whose raison d'être is to confuse the nature of man and thus give him an overabundant belief in his person discuss this permanent confusion. This permanent confusion uses Simone de Beauvoir's thinking on human life. The permanent confusion, the uprooting, the infantilization... We must tell man that he Continue reading