Wait... this course was supposed to be social theory. Where's this philosophy coming from? Oh, right-- the Swiss-German intellectual who's teaching it.
Hannah Arendt: yay! a woman, but huh?
And you find bits-n-pieces.
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. The fact that man is capable of action means that the unexpected can be expected from him, that he is able to perform what is infinitely improbable. And this again is possible only because each man is unique, so that with each birth something uniquely new comes into the world.
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Hey, don't knock arendt. I'm a big fan of her philosophy on the banality of evil. Though, admittedly, she is not my favorite person to read.
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