Hannah the human condition6/19/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In her enormously influential 1958 book The Human Condition ( public library), Arendt considers the function of art in human life - particularly its role in assuaging our irreconcilable longing for permanence in a universe defined by constant change. One of the most insightful and life-expanding answers comes from Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906–December 4, 1975) - a thinker who resisted the label “philosopher” as she produced and invited uncommonly potent thinking on such timely and timeless matters as lying in politics, our impulse for self-display, the power of outsiderdom, the crucial difference between truth and meaning, and what free will really means. ![]() But the question of what those differences are and why they matter - a question which philosophers and physicists alike have attempted to answer - remains a perennial perplexity. Art and science, despite their significant creative sympathies, have undeniably different roles in the human experience. ![]()
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