Totalitarian regime uses terror on psychological levels to achieve its goals. Hanna Arendt mentions in her essay that: ”Where the rule of terror is brought to perfection‚ as in concentration camps‚ propaganda disappears entirely” (Arendt 2) Moreover‚ Hannah Arendt also describes propaganda as “the most important instrument of totalitarianism for dealing with the non-totalitarian world” On the other hand she says that: “terror
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and uniqueness to our existence as humans; however‚ the absolute essence of what the human condition is or consists of can and has been interpreted in many ways. One of many philosophers who tried to define this concept was Hannah Arendt in her novel The Human Condition. Arendt believes that the three basic conditions under which humans live are labor‚ work‚ and action which she characterizes by the term vita activa. Labor refers to the biological processes of the body and corresponds to the human
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Total Domination and Forced Obedience Total domination and forced obedience is not a constructive or efficient way to lead others. For example‚ Lao-tzu says that a good leader or government should let their citizens or subjects live their lives the way they want to. “When the Master governs‚ the people are hardly aware that he exists.” (A World Of Ideas pg. 22) Hannah Ardent is the exact opposite. She says “Total domination‚ which strives to organize the infinite plurality and differentiation
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There are many similarities and differences in the way that Hannah Arendt and John A. Gentry thought about what our natural and human rights are. A definition for human rights from “Dictionary.com” is‚ “ fundamental rights‚ especially those believed to belong to an individual and in whose exercise a government may not interfere like the rights to speak‚ associate‚ work‚ or other laws stated in The Bill of Rights.” The definition of natural rights is as stated at "Dictionary.com”‚ "a political theory
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what it was doing. Throughout Hannah Arendt’s book she only talks about the people that supported the regime and took orders form it telling them to have millions of Jews sent to concentration camps. While their millions of those Jews never made it out because of the fact that they had gotten sick or they had some physical problems‚ so the people that were in charge of the prison camps had orders to have those sick or injured people sent to death camps. Those people
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Freedom and Liberty The three philosophers Simone de Beauvoir‚ Jean-Paul Sartre‚ and Hannah Arendt all have opinions and viewpoints about the ideas freedom and liberty. This paper will examine relevant passages from Beauvoir’s The Second Sex‚ Sartre’s Existentialism and Human Emotions‚ and Arendt’s What is Freedom. Along with looking at the three texts‚ the philosopher’s views on freedom and liberty will be examined‚ as well as my own personal thoughts. Out of the three views of freedom‚ I would
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Name: Ryan Dell Date: 3.13.13 Discussion sheet~ Arendt “Organized Guilt and Universal Responsibility” You must hand this in at the end of class‚ and it must be typed. Don’t write a thesis – the whole thing doesn’t need to be more than a page. This is to help you come to class prepared to participate. Points will be assigned points based on such things as thoroughness‚ insightfulness‚ student participation and promptness. _____________________________________________ Course themes[1]
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Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt is widely regarded as one of the most important‚ unique and influential thinkers of political philosophy in the Twentieth century. Arendt was greatly influenced by her mentor and one time lover‚ Martin Heidegger‚ whose phenomenological method would help to greatly shape and frame Arendt’s own thinking. Like Heidegger‚ Arendt was sceptical of the metaphysical tradition which tended towards abstract conceptual reasoning; ultimately at odds
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Propaganda during World War II Hannah Arendt said that “Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda” Propaganda was a technique used by leaders and the government to pursue the people. Propaganda was the way to recruit soldiers and get support from the citizens. The World War II (September 1‚ 1939 – September 2‚ 1945) was a period of disaster and need. Big countries like America and Great Britain‚ among many others
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But in Arendt’s writing Total Domination she believes that it’s wrong and that anyone who advocates it is mentally distressed. They both sound very similar but are different in their own ways. The two present essentially diverse solutions to the ongoing problem of human plurality in politics. Rousseau’s and Arendt’s have similar ideas on the people and their relationship to power and being governed but they express them threw different viewpoints. Rousseau and Arendt use slavery as examples
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