In researching the first part of my manuscript on The Human Condition, I have found two really helpful articles that lend useful analysis to Arendt’s epistemology (defining epistemology roughly as “an understanding of the means for how w know what we know”).  The first is Hinchman and Hinchman’s “In Heidegger’s Shadow.”   I really like this article’s [...]

One of the nice discoveries of being in a Derek Parfit reading group - aside from encountering Parfit - is that I am going to stumble upon some other interesting and thoughtful blogs as others host the chapters.  As such, I have very belatedly run into an Arendt question that apparently has people talking, both here and [...]

“It is wonder that sends the scientist on his course of ‘dispelling ignorance’ and that mad Einstein say: ‘the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.” Hence all subsequent ‘development’ of theories to match the universe’s comprehensibility ‘is in a certain sense a flight from ‘wonder.’  The God of the scientists, one is tempted [...]