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Freedom and Law

Hannah Arendt’s Unsolved Puzzle?

Ballesteros, Alfonso

From the journal ARSP Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, Volume 106, March 2020, issue 1

Published by Franz Steiner Verlag

article, 5248 Words
Original language: English
ARSP 2020, pp 19-28
https://doi.org/10.25162/arsp-2020-0002

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Freedom and law in Hannah Arendt’s thought are not spontaneously compatible and one might think they are almost impossible to occur together. Due to the importance of both freedom and law this might be considered Arendt’s greatest puzzle. Many scholars have addressed this problem but few have paid attention to the answers to this difficulty she found in political events and to the eventual solution to this puzzle, the phenomenon of civil disobedience. This paper aims to address this gap.

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Alfonso Ballesteros

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Law | Freedom | Hannah Arendt | Politics | Recht | Freiheit | Hannah Arendt | Politik

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