PHILOS 2G03 Chapter Notes - Chapter Arendt: Grater, Jean-Paul Sartre, Class Conflict
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Readings 12 hannah arendt on violence part 1. Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures: occurrences that are likely to come if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens. Our theories of the future are dangerous: they hide our common sense. Peace = the continuation of war by other means. There have been a great number of attempts by people who have tried combining marxist theories with ideas centred more are the importance of violence. Sartre: thought of class struggle in military terms, yet he also believed that nothing more violent than strikes could constitute nonviolent politics, promoted a newer shift towards violence, different from marx. The new generation has been educated on all of the disadvantages of violence and thus they have developed a revulsion against every form of violence. Adhering for violent measures does not mean you are an extremist.