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> My perspective comes from Hannah Arendt and her opinion that goodness demonstrated publicly necessarily becomes corrupted I checked your profile for info to
by AlexB138 7y ago
> My perspective comes from Hannah Arendt and her opinion that goodness demonstrated publicly necessarily becomes corrupted
I checked your profile for info to contact you privately to ask, but there wasn't anything, so my apology for the public request. Could you suggest any of Arendt's writings, especially around this subject? I've seen her referenced in interesting contexts and would love to read more.
- leftyted 7y agoThe bit about the impossibility of doing good in public is from The Human Condition. She gets it from Machievelli, who dared to "teach men how not to be good". I'd recommend a collection of three essays called Crises of the Republic. If you like that, then check out The Human Condition.