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The Life of the Mind. In her final work, Hannah Arendt incisive critique (aeon.co)
6 points by FrustratedMonky on July 18, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


With AI everywhere, and all the fresh discussion about free-will occurring, and how decision are made. Was surprised how someone that is not tech, non-philosophy professor, approached the subject.

""Following the work of St Augustine and Jaspers, Arendt turned Heidegger on his head and argued that all thinking moves from experience in the world, not from Being. By arguing that thinking was a function of Being, Heidegger had tried to divorce thinking from the will in order to argue that it was one’s true inner Being that determined ultimately who they became in the world. But for Arendt, this was an abdication of personal responsibility and choice. It was a way of handing over one’s decision-making power. And for her, it is only the choices that we make in real time when confronted with decisions that determine who we will become, and in turn determine the kind of world that we will help to shape""




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