Raider of the lost time
Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 5,934
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11-10-2005, 01:01 PM
| | Thinking by Hannah Arendt
I will at most 30 minutes late to this chat, would like to explore Hannah Arendt’s writing about ‘thought’ more information as follows This edited excerpt is from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy at http://www.iep.utm.edu/a/arendt.htm#H7 In the first volume of Life of the Mind, by Hannah Arendt, dealing with the faculty of thinking, she is at pains to distinguish it from 'knowing'. She draws upon Kant's distinction between knowing or understanding (Verstand) and thinking or reasoning (Vernunft). Understanding yields positive knowledge - it is the quest for knowable truths. Reason or thinking, on the other hand, drives us beyond knowledge, persistently posing questions that cannot be answered from the standpoint of knowledge, but which we nonetheless cannot refrain from asking. For Arendt, thinking amounts to a quest to understand the meaning of our world, the ceaseless and restless activity of questioning that which we encounter. The value of thinking is not that it yields positive results that can be considered settled, but that it constantly returns to question again and again the meaning that we give to experiences, actions and circumstances.
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Time independence: [∂E(g)]²=[∂F(a)×∂r(a)]·[∂F(b)×∂r(b)] and Mass independence: ¶a(t)·¶r(t)=c²
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