Hannah Arendt was a German philosopher with Jewish roots who lived a passionate life, full of courage and honesty. In our previous episode, I met Hannah for a stroll along the Hudson river in New York. We talked about her relationship with Martin Heidegger, her flight from the Nazi regime, and her studies of evil and totalitarianism. Now, while it is important to study important and mind-bending things like that, Hannah’s work stands out for tying it into a philosophy for living a good life. So, having laid the ground work last week, today, we’ll spend most of our time discussing her thinking on freedom and human thriving. This breadth of her work makes her an important figure in the canon of contemporary philosophy.

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