Abstract

RIPAMONTI, Paula. Ethics, Politics and History: Dimensions of Humanism in Hannah Arendt’s Philosophical Reflection. Estud. filos. práct. hist. ideas [online]. 2011, vol.13, n.1, pp.59-66. ISSN 1851-9490.

In the debate of the twentieth century humanist, the political thought of Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was established as one of the critics and testimony that sought to reflect on what happened in the Second World War. From his own experience as a Jew in Germany in the early decades of the century and as an intellectual in exile, she concentrated his efforts on understanding the philosophical and political significance of what happened. Without attempting to confirm and to define the human nature without so dehistoricized and meaning from an omniscient philosophy of history, turned her responsibility to bear the burden of the century, face the facts and enable other links with the past, the inheritance, traditions, yet with the future and project it into multiple modes of political space (national and international) crossed by conflicts and contradictions. In the struggle between the omnipotence and the human powerlessness and life experiences, the action appears to constitute the human condition and fits the time and initiative, as the possibility of a different future. The paper explores ethical, political and historical humanism that seeks dialogue with its present.

Keywords : Arendt; Humanism; Human condition; History; Ethics; Politics.

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