I do not walk alone : Hannah Arendt and the commitment of education
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In this essay, we aim to present some reflections we covered while dwelling on Hannah Arendt’s thought. Our major goal is to highlight points that allow us to propose considerations on the relation between the self and the world, or yet between ethics and politics, once we assume as background Arendt’s statement (2005a) on “The Crisis in Education” affirming the educator would have to assume responsibility for the world towards the child, when he or she says “that is the world” (p. 239). The world is not identical to nature, it concerns “human artifact, with the product of human hands” (Arendt, 1997, p. 62). It transcends a lifetime, “it pre-existed our arrival and it will survive our brief permanence” (Arendt, 1997, p. 65). Each new being who enters the world requires some care and protection, not only in the sense of looking after its development, but also in the sense of looking after the permanence of the world. This relation of each singularity with the world is called natality and it is defined by “the fact we all enter the world, at the moment we are born, and the world is constantly renewed by birth” (Arendt, 2005a, p. 247). In this regard, natality means being born for the world and not merely the advent of a birth. According to Passos (2013), in Arendt’s point of view it is inconceivable to think about the self-isolated and individual, because men’s true humanity would consist of “be-
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تاریخ انتشار 2017