Historian and political theorist Hannah #Arendt was born on this date in 1906. In 2008 John and Ken explored her life & thought with Seyla Benhabib from Yale University, author of "The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt." More at www.philosophytalk.org/shows/hannah-arendt. | Philosophy Talk

Born on this day in 1906, Hannah Arendt reshaped how we think about power, morality, and responsibility. A German-Jewish philosopher who fled Nazi Germany, Arendt’s writings—especially The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem—challenged the world to confront the ‘banality of evil.’ Her legacy reminds us: thinking deeply is not a luxury—it’s a moral duty | Unpacked Media