The Life of the MindThe most intriguing...and thought-provoking book that Hannah Arendt wrote (The New York Times Book Review), The Life of the Mind is the final work by the political theorist, philosopher, and feminist thinker.This fascinating book investigates thought itself as it exists in contemplative life. In a shift from Arendt's previous writings, most of which focus on the world outside the mind, this is an exploration of the mind's activities she considered to be the most fundamental. The result is a rich, challenging analysis of human mental activity in terms of thinking, willing, and judging. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Contents | 7 |
Appearance | 10 |
The Philosophers | 65 |
What Makes Us Think? | 125 |
Platos answer and its echoes | 141 |
The Roman answer | 151 |
The answer of Socrates | 166 |
The Apostle Paul and the impotence | 63 |
Epictetus and the omnipotence of the Will 73 | 73 |
Augustine the first philosopher of the Will 84 | 84 |
Thomas Aquinas and the primacy | 113 |
German Idealism and the rainbowbridge | 149 |
Nietzsches repudiation of the Will 158 | 158 |
Heideggers Willnottowill 172 | 172 |
The abyss of freedom and the novus ordo | 195 |
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according actually Anaximander answer Aristotle assumption Augustine aware become beginning body called cause cognition common sense concept concerned consciousness context Critique of Judgment Critique of Pure deal death Descartes desire dialogue divine Duns Scotus Epictetus eternal everything evil existence existential fact faculty freedom function given Greek philosophy Hegel Heidegger Heidegger's Hence Heraclitus human affairs Ibid immortality inherent inner intellect intuition invisible Kant Kant's kind knowledge language Leibniz living logos man's manifest matter means mental activities metaphor metaphysics mind mind's nature never Nicomachean Ethics Nietzsche noein notion object Parmenides past and future Plato present Pure Reason question reality Roman Scotus seems semblance sheer Socrates soul speaking spectators speculative speech Theaetetus theory things thinkers thinking activity thinking ego thought thought-things tion transcend true truth two-in-one visible W. H. Auden Will's withdrawal words world of appearances