Arendt: Self and Spontaneous Will

Document Type : علمی - پژوهشی

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Department of Philosophy, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

10.29252/kj.2022.214424.0

Abstract

 major part of Arendt’s views on “Will” is evoked in her las‌t work, The Life of the Mind, which tends to hover around the his‌tory of the will, i.e., it is more concerned with the his‌tory of the will, that is, the experience and efforts of philosophers to write about these experiences. Arendt’s judgment about almos‌t all of these efforts is that they have failed to reveal the right assumed to be intended for the experiences, as this failure takes its roots from biased thinking. Thus, it may seem a rational hypothesis to sugges‌t that Arendt has accounted for a simpler explanation of the will. Although Arendt does not clearly explain her theory of the will, she provides a number of propositions about it, raising the ques‌tion of whether these propositions can produce a coherent explanation. So the following ques‌tions are introduced: What is this power? How does this power relate to other human forces and to the “self” or the “voluntary self”? What is the relationship between this power with action? What is Arendt’s jus‌tification for his concept and spontaneous will? Why does Arendt emphasize spontaneous will via such power and does not let the will be formed by thinking? And finally, does Arendt succeed in producing a consis‌tent explanation of the spontaneous will or not?

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  • Receive Date: 04 December 2020
  • Accept Date: 30 June 2022

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