Matah Nan Final Blog Post Hannah Ardent Section 4
Hannah Ardent Hannah viewed that giving your own political opinion was a form of self expression and identity. As she experienced life through the times of the rise of the Nazi faction and Stalin's Regime. She saw that a part of their pattern was that they allow for no political strife or alternate opinion. Should there be such, they are quickly exterminated with no remorse. Thus, they keep the power centralized and everything is uniform to their desires. This also made it so that these regimes would fall near instantly when the head was removed. Hannah's book the Human Condition takes about three factors to a human's political identity: labor, work, and action. Labor is all the things that a person needs to survive such as food, shelter, and water. Work is about meeting those need like having a job. Action is what represents your identity. The actions you take to state your opinion to the public. Hannah speaks about how in America, there is little representati...