Index No. 6 (Arendt & More Favorites)

An early series on "Arendt's Gospel" and some additional favorites

Index posts come at the end of each three-week publishing cadence. (For new readers, Pose Ponder publishes weekdays for three weeks on, one week off.) Indexes are a chance for me to gather together a handful of older posts and re-present them.

For Index No. 6, following on from recent Arendt study, the theme is an old series on Arendt’s “Gospel” from Christmas-New Years 2023-24.

For those who are sick of hearing about Arendt, Arendt, Arendt, I’m adding three other past favorites — and, in relation to one of them, I’m sneaking in one more post on Arendt! (Bwahaha)

Have a great break and see you in a week.

P.S. — On Saturday mornings, per usual, you’ll get a round-up of the past week.

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Arendt’s “Gospel”

First, there is an introductory quote I’m working from. You’re invited to read it and ponder first.

The miracle that saves the world, the realm of human affairs, from its normal, ‘natural’ ruin is ultimately the fact of natality, in which the faculty of action is ontologically rooted. It is, in other words, the birth of new men and the new beginning, the action they are capable of by virtue of being born. Only the full experience of this capacity can bestow upon human affairs faith and hope, those two essential characteristics of human existence which Greek antiquity ignored… It is this faith in and hope for the world that found perhaps its most glorious and most succinct expression in the few words with which the Gospels announced their “glad tidings”: “A child has been born unto us.”

(Source: The Human Condition, p. 247, conclusion of Chapter V “On Action”)

Then I wrote a series of three posts commenting on it:

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More Favorites

And sneaking in one more Arendt post, to read with Backward, Forward, Sideways:

Political Animal

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