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Hannah Arendt: Imagination, Understanding

by on Mar.15, 2010, under philosophy, politics

hannah_arendt_portrait_300‘Imagination enables us to see things in their proper perspective, to be strong enough to put that which is too close at a certain distance so that we can see and understand it without bias and prejudice, to be generous enough to bridge the abysses of remoteness until we can see and understand everything that is too far away from us as though it were our own affair….Without this kind of imagination, which actually is understanding, we would never be able to take our bearings in the world. It is the only inner compass that we have. We are contemporaries only as far as our understanding reaches’. [Understanding and Politics p. 323]

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