Hannah Arendt
1906-1975 · Phenomenology · Renowned
Arendt was a German-Jewish political theorist sent to cover Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem. She found a career functionary where she expected a monster, and gave us the banality of evil for crimes done by people who never stop to think. Her earlier work traced how total rule grew out of the wreckage of Europe's old order, and in The Human Condition she separated labor, work and action.
Signature
The position Arendt is most identified with in the Profiler:
- Society
- leans Collectivism
- Government
- Polis Model / Direct Democracy
Positions on the 6 axes the sources answer
- Society
- leans Collectivism (25 on a 0–100 scale from Collectivism to Individualism)
- Order
- leans Horizontal (75 on a 0–100 scale from Vertical to Horizontal)
- Nature of Reality
- leans Multiplicity (75 on a 0–100 scale from Unity to Multiplicity)
- Ground of Being
- leans Immanence (25 on a 0–100 scale from Immanence to Transcendence)
- Polity
- leans Illiberalism (25 on a 0–100 scale from Illiberalism to Liberalism)
- Conviction
- leans Uncertain (25 on a 0–100 scale from Uncertain to Certain)
14 of 20 axes are left blank: the sources do not answer them, or Arendt refused the framing. Nothing is imputed; a blank is not a middling score.
Foundational questions
- Theology
- Other
What is your position on the existence and nature of God or gods? - Government
- Polis Model / Direct Democracy
What is your ideal form of government? - Highest Good
- Freedom
What is the highest good? - Good and Evil
- Social Invention
What is the fundamental nature of good and evil? - Knowledge
- Other / Phronesis
What is the ultimate foundation of knowledge? - Ethics Basis
- Virtue
What is the ultimate basis of ethics? - Agency
- Radical Freedom
What is the nature of human agency and freedom? - Economy
- Welfare Capitalism
What is the ideal organization of economic life? - Authority
- Consent of the Governed
What is the legitimate source of authority? - Language
- Speech Act
What is the fundamental nature of language? - Law
- Social Contract / Cosmopolitan Rights
What is the ultimate source of legitimate law? - Death
- Agnostic
What happens at death? - Human Nature
- Political Animal
What is human nature? - Primary Bond
- Nation
What is your primary bond and loyalty?