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philosophors: “This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.” — Hannah Arendt

kalt34745: Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.,Hannah Arendt,ways, overcome, fear,

MadelonWise: But do we ever take the time to truly challenge the principles we’ve inherited, to ensure they stand up to our own individual scrutiny? Are we even aware of our biases and learned behaviors?

SolidarityHall: The late Fred Dewey was a cultural activist deeply infuenced by the democracy work of Hannah Arendt. We are screening clips from L.A. video artist Dana Duff's multi-reader version of Fred's striking What Is Power essay on 4/13!

rizacitak251: “The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.” –Hannah Arendt

Eloy_BP: Visiting the New School later. Who can give me the secret passcodes to Hannah Arendt’s crystal mausoleum?

uninvited2cents: Hannah Arendt goes into detail about this with plenty of examples. The bottom line is, you need power to secure and exercise any right. Governments/states both give and take away the ability to exercise those rights.

MMBrussell: You know, this common use of the term AI, in debates like this one, it really has its linguistic effect doesn’t it? “It’s AI.” Not the one who owns the data, determines the prompt, thus guaranteeing the bias. I’m waiting for an essay on Hannah Arendt’s banality of evil, 2.0

radiowestin: Bella 'stealing washing machines from dead Ukrainian women makes easier domestic work for Russian women' 'give me LUSH for free cause I'm a star' 'I am the new Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault together' Rapoport

HannahArendt00: “The answer to the question of the meaning of politics is so simple and so conclusive that one might think all other answers are utterly beside the point. The answer is: The meaning of politics is freedom.” - Hannah Arendt, “Introduction into Politics,” p. 16

cancitak166: “The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.” –Hannah Arendt

Samantharhill: Hannah Arendt's syllabus for Basic Moral Propositions, taught in 1966

trutherbotprop: The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction ...no longer exists --Hannah Arendt

alanigolanski: Entrusted by Walter Benjamin with his manuscript Über den Begriff der Geschichte (On the Concept of History), Hannah Arendt took from it the lesson, applied in The Origins of Totalitarianism, that historical understanding phenomenologically homes in on experience not causality.

SnakeSkin_J: Hannah Arendt was not pretty.

goulag2023: The Legitimacy of Violence as a Political Act ? Noam Chomsky debates with Hannah Arendt, Susan Sontag, et al. December 15, 1967

bahriarnas257: “The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.” –Hannah Arendt

b2l_History: New to PMC, Hannah Arendt's report on the trial of Adolf Eichmann is one of the greatest nonfiction works of the twentieth century, introducing the now-famous term 'the banality of evil' : Eichmann in Jerusalem

SrAlwaysHorny: Hannah Arendt Byugh Chul- Hann Richard Sennet

blueissumptuous: It means,examining and bearing consciously the burden that events have placed upon us-neither denying their existence nor submitting meekly to their weight as though everything that in fact happened could not have happened otherwise. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

BrianRWasik: Door 1: read and grapple with what Hannah Arendt wrote Door 2: use your passing familiarity and naiveté to minimize the Holocaust in service of your poor hypothesis and self interest Again: Log off. Touch grass.

ElisabetThorin: "No one who learns to think can go back to obeying as he did before, not out of a rebellious spirit, but out of the acquired habit of questioning and examining everything." Hannah Arendt, 'Some Questions of Moral Philosophy'

dvdmatesi: Hannah Arendt If the fuel for totalitarianism is a weak and fearful individual. Then the cure is a revolution that takes place in the hearts and minds, and leads to awakening of self responsibility, courage, and strength.

mrcsvtr: Hannah Arendt explica

BooksforSapiens: I want to dive into this massive book. I've great things about this book, and I know Hannah Arendt won't dissapoint. It is definitely a scary book, but I will have to tackle it sooner or later. Have you had a chance to read this book by Hannah Arendt?

aey_himansu: “Fascists are never content to merely lie; they must transform their lie into a new reality, and they must persuade people to believe in the unreality they’ve created. And if you get people to do that, you can convince them to do anything” - HANNAH ARENDT.

WooSpry: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.” — Hannah Arendt Masks Lockdowns

allepictetus: I am not sure if i have to answer yes no question about my self. So friends (in real life), can we just talk about Derrida, Hannah Arendt or Heidegger???

lascapigliata8: So I guess we’ll see each other again, in the aftermath of this horrific war on reality and basic human decency. In the mean time, I will leave you with this

ArendtNetwork: “Hannah Arendt’s decisive contribution to a rethinking of Western political theory and to feminism is the insistent reminder that the subject of politics is not one.”

chriswhitside: God bless Hannah Arendt. The origin of "self-deceived deceivers of war"

6PointCalvinist: On the thought of Hannah Arendt, especially on her emphasis on praxis and need for society to have a "common world" (shared forum of public perception)--an integral part in why Arendt saw social isolation as integral for totalitarianism.

reye1234765: “The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.” –Hannah Arendt

mrdere: Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.” Hannah Arendt Eser:Jimmy Robert, Untitled (Ompdrailles), 2013

agd64341: “The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.” –Hannah Arendt

tchoi8: Octavia E. Butler: “Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.” Hannah Arendt: “The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal."

RameshK__: Glenn Greenwald made some instructive points in describing the "banality of evil" on the part of government functionaries. Hannah Arendt coined the term when she went to the Nuremberg trials: She watched Nazi war criminals, one after the next go on the stand. And she was shocked

Samantharhill: "The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up." — Hannah Arendt

t3dy: "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." -Hannah Arendt on the tension between rules and narrative in Dungeons and Dragons character death discourse.

Samantharhill: "The true goal of Fascism was only to seize power and establish the Fascist 'elite' as uncontested ruler over the country." — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

lionel_trolling: Hannah Arendt should've called it the Dorkiness of Evil, but she didn't have that vocabulary available to her

college_kumaran: In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with to whom one can present grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. It's the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom; bureaucracy is tyranny without a tyrant – Hannah Arendt

HannahArendt00: “Freedom always implies freedom of dissent.” - Hannah Arendt, Interview by Adelbert Reif: Thoughts On Politics and Revolution, 1970

Jmichaelortiz4: in the hood; when his flat on St. Mark’s Place was too filthy he used the toilet in the local liquor store; Hannah Arendt took him shopping and made him buy a second suit…" Artists are rarely wise souls, I think.

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dionefdls: I met and studied about Hannah Arendt in college and have been passionate about her philosophy ever since.

jimmyhawk9: Hannah Arendt on Revolution & Freedom (1968)

natureofanarchy: We are free to change the world and start something new in it. -Hannah Arendt

DavidDREL: /imagine prompt: Hannah Arendt on a motorcycle with the Berlin Wall in the background.

SoftFascia: Open lines of communication with your teenager by sharing a splif while discussing Hannah Arendt

WoeToChorazin: Thinking of pulling a Hannah Arendt and typing out the final exam on my typewriter and asking three ✨extremely✨ broad questions.

cancitak166: “The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.” –Hannah Arendt

Samantharhill: “Many think they can dispense with theory altogether, which of course only means that they want their own theory, underlying their own statements, to be accepted as gospel truth.” — Hannah Arendt

philosophytweet: “The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.” Hannah Arendt

danycelermajer: With Arendt, Christoff asks: "given what we know about climate change, at what point does enabling the exploitation of coal, oil and gas resources – through exploration, mining, direct use or export – embody culpable moral complacency?" NOW.

alanigolanski: Among Hannah Arendt's teenage readings, on her "young adult" bookshelf

nuhkilic609: “The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.” –Hannah Arendt

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dtr_cha: "Banality of Evil" 1963 by political thinker Hannah Arendt. Arendt, a Jew who fled Germany during AH's rise to power. Zutin decides genocide, GULAGs, camps, deportation with same banality. Still, EU egg heads in talk shows speak of RU's evil as if not proven. We learn too late.

anthgarrett: "The smallest act in the most limited circumstances bears the seed of the same boundlessness, because one deed, and sometimes one word, suffices to change every constellation." —Hannah Arendt quoted by Jenny Odell in SAVING TIME

literlandweb1: Carta de Martin Heidegger a Hannah Arendt:

hassn1020657: “The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.” –Hannah Arendt

WayneMathison: “Lies are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason, than reality, since the liar has the great advantage of knowing beforehand what the audience wishes or expects to hear.” ~Hannah Arendt

E_Rat_Smus6666: The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communiste, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists (Hannah Arendt)

philosophersmag: The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.--Hannah Arendt

danielwalbert: "Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent." - Dr. Hannah Arendt

dior22oyr: “The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.” –Hannah Arendt

littlethingsz1: You don't read Hannah Arendt to understand fascism, you read Clara Zetkin

bayrsan: Imagine if hannah arendt had access to the people who will do anything for reality tv clout born in the wrong generation she coulda so many willing subjects

Tatyana53398990: GPT-4: Hannah Arendt: Hyperreality? This is about the banality of everyday life, about people merely following trends without thought. What happened to the human capacity for critical thinking and genuine engagement?

WezG: Just nearing the end of the book: Hannah Arendt - The Origins of Totalitarianism - I just wanted to include this quote for perusal on social media - it's quite an impactful statement. '...iron curtains separate the inhabitants of a totalitarian country from the rest of the…

BrandonLukeMc: This is further proof that, as Hannah Arendt said, “The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”

RWMaloneMD: Friday Funnies: Move on, Nothing to see here The Banality of Evil starts with a failure to think: Hannah Arendt Substack at RWMaloneMD

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sonbarzzz: “The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.” ~Hannah Arendt

aesthetikeit: my mom resembles Hannah Arendt so profoundly that she literally thought I edited her face into this photo

HannahArendt00: “…we may now say that politics is limited by labor from below and by philosophy from above.” - Hannah Arendt, “The End of Tradition,” from The Promise of Politics, ed. Jerome Kohn, p. 83

hefbach: Evil comes from a failure to think. It defies thought for as soon as thought tries to engage itself with evil and examine the premises and principles from which it originates, it is frustrated because it finds nothing there. That is the banality of evil…

shebells80: “Lies are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason, than reality, since the liar has the great advantage of knowing beforehand what the audience wishes or expects to hear.” ~Hannah Arendt

alanigolanski: Judith Shklar's 1975 essay on Hannah Arendt.

quadrismegistus: It's come to my attn that this could be construed as 'against having kids'. On the contrary. I agree with Hannah Arendt that natality is the miracle of newness underwriting human freedom. I'm just afraid of/annoyed w my kid-having friends disappearing—into what? borgeois cosplay?

borrelli_gomez: "Lies are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason, than reality, since the liar has the great advantage of knowing beforehand what the audience wishes or expects to hear". ~Hannah Arendt

nicolascgrey: “Lies are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason, than reality, since the liar has the great advantage of knowing beforehand what the audience wishes or expects to hear.” ~Hannah Arendt

janakp14: Reminds me of John Lukacs calling out Hannah Arendt's "Intellectual opportunism" and also laying bare the "Arteriosclerosis of the American Intelligentsia".

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TheMarsAwan1: “Lies are often much more plausible, more appealing to reason, than reality, since the liar has the great advantage of knowing beforehand what the audience wishes or expects to hear.” ~Hannah Arendt

Agnosticspirit1: Does Putin's atrocious invasion and his military actions in Ukraine, killing children, civilians, destroying public amenities, hospitals, kindergartens, deporting children to Russia, fit Hannah Arendt's concept of the "banality of evil"?

Matlittle: "Everything depends on the power behind the violence. The sudden dramatic breakdown of power that ushers in revolutions reveals in a flash how civil obedience – to law, to rulers, to institutions – is but the outward manifestation of support and consent." Hannah Arendt

AlexCampolo: “She never made these silly comparisons between Weimar and America…” Judith Shklar on Arendt (who knew more about both of these than most…)

Wiltster: We have been on the path for a while... "Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." ~ Hannah Arendt

TheQuoteSpot2: Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. -Hannah Arendt

helensclegel: "seclusion from the world ... is a form of barbarism" (Hannah Arendt)

11tulips: **Hannah Arendt: “The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.” Jason Stanley, a philosopher from Yale.. put it this way…“[F]reedom requires truth, and so to smash freedom you must smash truth”…

second_sailing: Auden said, of Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition: "every now and then, I come across a book which gives me the impression of having been especially written for me...THC belongs to this small and select class." That's how I feel about this YouTube video:

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GrillPillMax: Hannah arendt: idiot, dolt, sleeping around with heidegger Walter Benjamin: smart, prescient, knew mickey mouse was evil in 1929

alanigolanski: Once upon a time there was a fox who, in his shocking ignorance, built a trap as his own burrow, but annoyed by other foxes' steering clear, hung signs proclaiming, "Come here everyone, this is the most beautiful trap in the world." -- Hannah Arendt on Heidegger (1953)

Samantharhill: Hannah Arendt mapping out Hegel's dialectic:

ancapquotes: "The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution." - Hannah Arendt

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