To think critically is always to be hostile.. Hannah Arendt

June 1, 2019 § Leave a comment

‘To think critically is always to be hostile,” the
political philosopher Hannah Arendt declared in
what turned out to be her last interview before
her death in 1975. Pointing out that critical thought always challenges and undermines
established rules and conventional wisdom, she added: “Thinking itself is such a dangerous
enterprise.”

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