Tragic, not absurd

on action in Hannah Arendt's work

Authors

  • Adriano Correia filosofia.ufg.br

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21680/1983-2109.2018v25n48ID14298

Keywords:

Action, Reconciliation, Tragic, Hannah Arendt

Abstract

One of the central movements of Arendt’s The human condition is her analysis of the basic features of the activity of action, notably its capacity to start new beginnings in a web of human relationships. It’s crucial to Arendt emphasize the close articulation between action and freedom and between freedom and plurality. By this reason she argues that freedom can only be given in conditions of non-sovereignty. Notwithstanding, she thinks that within the realm of action can be found the remedies for its frailties: irreversibility, unpredictability, boundlessness and ambiguity, which are remedied by forgiveness, by promise, by “act in concert” and by the interchange of perspectives in a common world. In order to understand the meaning of the action is fundamental to realize that the sources of its dignity are the same as its frailty, and that the reconciliation with the tragic aspect of its non-sovereignty befalls by means of the potentialities of the action itself.

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Author Biography

Adriano Correia, filosofia.ufg.br

Professor de Filosofia da Universidade Federal de Goiás. Bolsista de Produtividade em Pesquisa do CNPq.

 

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Published

03-09-2018

How to Cite

CORREIA, A. Tragic, not absurd: on action in Hannah Arendt’s work. Princípios: Revista de Filosofia (UFRN), [S. l.], v. 25, n. 48, p. 157–170, 2018. DOI: 10.21680/1983-2109.2018v25n48ID14298. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufrn.br/principios/article/view/14298. Acesso em: 6 jul. 2024.

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Vol. 25 No. 48 (2018): Princípios: Revista de Filosofia (UFRN)

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