Against Violence But Not At Any Price: Hannah Arendt's Concept Of Power  

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Peeters, Remi

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Ethical Perspectives: Journal of the European Ethics Network vol. 15 no. 2 (Jun. 2008), page 169-192.
Topik: Domination; Force; Power (And Action); Strength; Violence
Fulltext: against violence.pdf (12.95MB)

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HAnnah Arendt reproaches our tradition of political philosophy for reducing politics to domination, and for so concealing the central political phenomenon, i.e., power(section one). Since Arendt's own concept of power is an extension of her concept of action, she understands power in a both non-hierarchical and non-instrumental way, as much distinct from domination as from violence. Furthermore, by stressing the essential relation and potential character of power, she shows the impossibility of human omnipotence (section two). Section three sketches Arendt's analysis of violent action as an instrumental, mute, and solitary activity, which can destroy, but never generate power, and which, therefore, can never be nore than a poor substitute for acting together. However, the priority of power over violence is not absolute: sometimes power needs violence to maintain itself. Arendt seems to recognize this, but nowwhere elaborates it (see the concluding remarks).

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