Being or Belonging: A False Dilemma

Authors

  • Vanessa Kaiser

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55614/27093824.v6i2.178

Keywords:

being, world as artifice, spirit, freedom, community, plurality, collectivism, ideology

Abstract

Our common world is forged in values, principles, customs, morals, habits and institutions, but entrenched in the same roots, we find falsehoods that interweave, straining and sometimes fracturing our relationship with ourselves and with each other. One of these is the dilemma that has arisen from a type of community membership that overrides the self or the realization of the self at the cost of the survival of the community. Summarized, the tension is between the individual and the community. In this article we take it upon ourselves to show, from Hannah Arendt's point of view, the falsity of this dilemma. In her words: «Being is obscure if it does not come to appearance (before men: dokein), and appearance (before men) is weak if it does not come to being» (Arendt, 2002b, p. 29).

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References

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Published

2023-12-31

How to Cite

Kaiser, V. (2023). Being or Belonging: A False Dilemma. Revista Fe Y Libertad, 6(2), 83–104. https://doi.org/10.55614/27093824.v6i2.178