Hannah Arendt

ever see that person, or most people for that matter doing. This is said of the individuals in the Holocaust that shedded their individuality almost entirely in exchange for their lives that became centered on Hitler’s views whom the philosopher, Hannah Arendt, said to be “ordinary people placed under extraordinary pressure to conform” (Shpancer, par.…

The last essay question, number seven, is contained in Kate Millet’s Sexual Politics, on page 309 in Political Ideologies (Festenstein and Kenny). In an attempt to answer, and prove sex is a status category with political implications, Millet described, in what, amounted to a pioneering effort on her part (P.I. p. 309). The feministic view of sexual politics, and the power members of the male gender held over females. It is the power relationship, Millet attempts to explain politics and…

It is a situation where the state has total authority over the society and controls all aspects in the public and private life (Kaminer, 2007). It is a concept that is attached to Hannah Arendt. Hannah is a woman who fled from Germany when Hitler rose to power. She fled to work as a refugee in Paris with other refugees from Nazi Germany. Totalitarianism is, therefore, a concept that is linked with the Soviet Union and the Nazi Germany. In…

Whom cannot be charged for the same charged twice. He was found guilty the first time. My second half of my quote means the prosecution cannot call the member to the defense. That whom have to stay in trial for any crime. Hannah Arendt states: “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them”. (Brainy Quote). When one has to get a job done and they do not know what they are doing they are being put in JEOPARDY. One has to learn a task before trying…

Using nonviolence to settle the colonial problem around a negotiating table is ineffective because the colonial problem is solved by the colonized intellectual rather than the majority of people in a colonized country and the colonized intellectual is careful not to break ties with colonialism and colludes with the colonial elites. The reason why Fanon advocated for violence over nonviolence in the decolonization process is because he believed that nonviolence was used by colonized intellectuals…

Intellectualism in America America has ushered in a new age of technology; moreover, we have an unquenched thirst for knowledge. This thirst for knowledge of the unknown has caused some people to become frightened towards others for different beliefs on certain ideas pertaining to the way man came about and how we have evolved overtime. This has created numerous “isms”. A major ism that has had a rather large uprising lately is Intellectualism. This is the idea that everything is derived from…

But with populism in the picture the party has no control because the candidates do not need to rely on the party. The 2016 election is about the people seeking effective representation than it is about the mob who hates. According to crick, Hannah Arendt in Origins of Totalitarianism distinguished between the people and the mob. The people seek for effective representation politically, whereas the mob hates society from which it has been excluded. Typically at debates the parties have told the…

The cultural mindset of the people changes over time as they begin thinking like the Western world. Culture according to (Tylor, 1958: 1) is that complex whole which includes knowledge, art, belief, morals, law, custom and any other skills acquired by man in his society. Neo-liberalism in cultural context shown by Comaroff and Comaroff (pg 279), explains that the world is characterized by movements which leads to spread of culture consisting of spread of religion and rise of occult economies…

citizenship in the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic; two democratic countries seen as the most civil liberty and political right in the Caribbean. Belton explains her main idea by looking at contemporary thought of nationality by focusing on Hannah Arendt notion of the “right to have rights” (126), how people of Haitian descent in the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic are denied the right to claim a nationality and how not having a nationality has impacted their lives. The denial of the right…

Demagoguery and its usage How do modern politicians use demagoguery in order to manipulate their constituency? Signer, Michael. Demagogue: The Fight to Save Democracy from Its Worst Enemies. New York City, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2009. Print. Michael Signer’s critical analysis of past demagogues such as Huey Long, Hugo Chavez, and Moqtada al-Sadr in his book, Demagogue helped give me a large insight in the mechanics of demagoguery as well as the power-corrupted…