6. The Rise of the Social | Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition

A bit of a longer discussion than usual, but I think the topic warrants the extra attention. Here Arendt writes about the emergence of this new pseudo-public realm she calls "society". In modernity, the classical notion of a polis falls away as human activity is increasingly understood in terms of labour and behaviour, and organized in terms of bureaucracy. This has fundamentally changed our understanding of governance and freedom.
Arendt, H. (1998). The human condition. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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[@solstrand1923]

Thank you for a helpful and rhetorically (no polity-pun intended) well put explanation of Arendt's ideas, which she in had trouble doing as clearly in her own writing!

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Wow I would like to hear more about the connection to the current climate crisis.....Thx by the way for the good videos. Extremely good work.

[@bekindalways295]

Thank you so much for creating this series! I'm currently reading the Human condition and your videos helped me tremendously in understanding the book.

[@philosophycompanion9331]

Hey, thank you for the comment! Glad to hear you're finding the videos helpful :D Enjoy reading through Arendt

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[@juliettelynn7789]

This is awesome, thank you so much for these videos!

[@Davv296]

“The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of a million is a statistic.” - Stalin

[@Davv296]

“Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so” ― Galileo Galilei.

[@philosophycompanion9331]

And, we can add, what cannot be made measurable doesn't exist! Or so we could understand an aspect of Arendt's critique of modern science.