The birth in Hannah Arendt

Abstract

The present article seeks in the thought of Hannah Arendt some clarification about political action, whose chain consequences, human-beings cannot foresee. Such consequences are irreversible after they happen, so such results can only be found historically through a retrospective way. In face of this anguish, there was an attempt to eliminate action which has brought harmful implications like the case of technology development which can eliminate life on Earth especially after the emergence of movements brought about from the suppression of freedom and people’s identities such as totalitarian regimes and terror. It will be shown that the action allied with the people’s commitment to each other is a guarantor of freedom, which expresses the capacity to begin, which therefore animates and inspire all human activities and have with itself the change that makes no human creation to be forever, including the unfortunate. This brings about the meaning of birth for Hannah Arendt. Through acting, human beings generate the new and the unexpected; with each new generation there are more possibilities of transformation and change. Keywords: birth, novelty, action, speech, totalitarianism, beginning, restart, unpredictability, irreversibility