Arendt - Between Past and Future - Chapter 1

Premise: There has been a gap created between the past and the future, namely the loss of tradition.

Proposition A: Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche serve as guideposts to a past which has lost its authority.

Proposition B: One of the losses suffered, gained in previous revolutions, is "public happiness" aka "public freedom".


Proposition C:  Thinking about the future is now more than simply an exclusive exercise in thought, but a very real political reality affecting and should be concerning everyone.

Concern:  Too many people, (most) are blinded or simply don't care that they no longer personally think and exchange ideas but rather wait for ideas to be distilled into values which can be weighed, not personally, but by society as a whole.