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 representation for our personal political identity and how hw focus much more on our labor and work. 


That can not be entirely blames on our political system because of our two factions. Our society before of late, has not actually cared for politics as we mostly remained standard. Also, in our capitalist society labor is becoming more expensive while work is becoming more difficult-- leaving less time for action.

Hannah was in Israel during the case of Adolf Ichimon and reported on it. Doing so gave forth the concept of the Banality of Evil. 
  • “The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”
 The sad truth of the Banality of Evil is written in the book Life of the Mind. For any person must be thinking, willing and judging. They must be thinking of performing such an action. It must be on there mind. The person much be willing to act upon it and follow through and before you take the last step and cross a line you must judge the worth of the action. Judge is pros and cons--its consequences. Adolf was thinking and willing, but he was not judging. That is the Banality of Evil. To not think of the consequences of your actions and having to deal with the ethics and morality of the situation. I can not say for sure that I will always be able to be able to judge. Part of it is because of the pressure of responsibility and part of it comes from my development in society where we usually must obey the authority figures or suffer the consequences, usually a punishment. 






Total of Posts for the Semester: 13 (11 discussion posts, midterm summary comment, final blog post)

Feb 4/9/16/18/25
March 2/4/11/23/25(midterm summary comment)/30
April 1

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