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Joseph Joubert on Thinking

French moralist and essayist Joseph Joubert provides this week's Thoughts on Thinking.

Amor Mundi 12/7/14

In this week's Amor Mundi, we look into the controversial number of people that are killed each year by police, gain deeper insight into the Nazi Willem Sassen from his daughter, remember the value of being able to think from the perspective of multiple groups, and much more!

The Eichmann Trial: An Ineradicable Sense of Justice

Claudia Hilb reflects on how Adolf Eichmann's crimes awakened in Arendt an archaic sense of justice that is at the same time restrained by the limitations of modern judicial systems.

Arendt, Nietzsche, and Power

In this week's Library feature, we appreciate two passages on Nietzsche that Arendt found worthy of annotation.

Video Archives - "Revenge and the Art of Justice" (2011)

In this week's Video Archives, we look back on a lecture Roger Berkowitz gave on the relationship between revenge and justice.

P. D. Ouspensky on Thinking

Russian mathematician and esotericist P. D. Ouspensky provides this week's Thoughts on Thinking.

Please Support the Hannah Arendt Center This Holiday Season!

Please consider supporting the Hannah Arendt Center this holiday season with a donation!

Experience as an Anchor for Thinking

Ari-Elmeri Hyvönen discusses how the absence of experience leads philosophy and ideology into useless abstractions that ignore the reality of human interactions.

Amor Mundi 11/30/14

In this week's Amor Mundi, we reflect on the state of refugees and human rights, realize the need to rethink the role of Congress in formulating U.S. foreign policy, meditate on the outcome of Darren Wilson's trial, and much more.