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    Arendt felt she could no longer be a bystander.

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    Leaving Germany a few months later, Arendt settled in France.

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    Arendt was a German-born Jewish political theorist who escaped Europe during the Holocaust.

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    Yet despite these remarkable successes, Arendt argues that Thoreau's theory was misguided.

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    Nevertheless, it is Arendt's account of the practice that is ultimately more promising.

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    Hannah Arendt was a political philosopher and a Jew who escaped Hitler's Germany and settled in New York.

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    Heidegger was a member of the Nazi party, and as a professor began an affair with his then student, Hannah Arendt.

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    Soon after arriving in America, Arendt published a series of essays on Jewish politics in the German-Jewish newspaper“Aufbau,” now collected in The Jewish Writings.

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    Perhaps the most striking difference between Thoreau and Arendt is that, while he sees disobedience as necessarily individual, she sees it as, by definition, collective.

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    These treaties, Arendt argued, eroded principles of a common humanity, transforming the state or government“from an instrument of the law into an instrument of the nation.”.

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    Arendt knew from the experience of Fascism that conscience could prevent subjects from actively advancing profound injustice, but she saw that as a kind of moral bare minimum.

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    For Arendt, the greatest civil disobedience movements- Indian independence, civil rights, and the anti-war movement- took inspiration from Thoreau but added a vital commitment to mass, public action.

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    Thoreau's dramatic refusal to pay his poll tax would meet this definition, but Arendt makes one further distinction: anyone who breaks the law publicly but individually is a mere conscientious objector;

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    On one hand, charges of ideological closure need to be balanced against the way a certain(already discovered) truth exerts what philosopher and political analyst Hannah Arendt termed a coercive value.

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    What makes“Origins” so salient today is Arendt's recognition that comprehending totalitarianism's possible recurrence means neither denying the burden events have placed on us, nor submitting quietly to the order of the day.

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    In other words, Arendt argued these“elements” were brought into an explosive relationship through the actions of leaders of the Nazi movement combined with the active support of followers and the inactions of many others.

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    In May 1940, a month before Germany defeated France and occupied the country, Arendt was arrested as an“enemy alien” and sent to a concentration camp in Gurs, near the Spanish border, from which she escaped.

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    Arendt would agree that it is better to abstain from injustice than to participate in it, but she worries that Thoreau's philosophy might make us complacent about any evil that we aren't personally complicit in.

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    Because Thoreauvian civil disobedience is so focused on the personal conscience and not, as Arendt puts it, on‘the world where the wrong is committed', it risks prioritising individual moral purity over the creation of a more just society.

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    (Recall, for example, the classic psychology experiments by both Milgram and Zimbardo demonstrating this sobering fact, as well as the atrocities ignored and committed by ordinary German citizens during the Holocaust, a phenomenon Hannah Arendt has dubbed the"banality of evil.") Each of us harbors the innate capacity for evil.

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    Amongst Heidelberg alumni in other disciplines are the" Father of Psychology" Wilhelm Wundt, the" Father of Physical Chemistry" J. Willard Gibbs, the" Father of American Anthropology" Franz Boas, Dmitri Mendeleev, who created the periodic table of elements, inventor of the two-wheeler principle Karl Drais, Alfred Wegener, who discovered the continental drift, as well as political theorist Hannah Arendt, gender theorist Judith Butler, political scientist Carl Joachim Friedrich, and sociologists Karl Mannheim, Robert E. Park and Talcott Parsons.

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