Freedom and Fatefulness: Augustine, Arendt and the Journey of Memory  

Oleh:

Hammer, Dean

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Theory, Culture & Society vol. 17 no. 2 (Apr. 2000), page 83-104.
Topik: ethics; heidegger; judgment; Kant; phenomenology
Fulltext: 83TCAS172.pdf (147.99KB)

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This article reassesses Arendt's relationship to Augustine, exploring the Augustinian context for Arendt's own thinking about the relationship between thought and action. What Arendt drew from Augustine, the contours of which remain in her later work, is a journey of memory in which reflection, as it removes us from the world, paradoxically reveals us as inserted into this world. Out of this ontology of origins emerges an ethic of beginning as we recognize, in the moment of reflection, a bond of kinship and an equality toward each other that is constituted by our common relationship of beginning and fatefulness to the world. It is this Augustinians journey of memory that continued to guide Arendt's thinking in developing a political ethic that stared with action the ontological foundation of beginning.

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