Libertad, natalidad y pluralidad en la comprensión de la acción por Hannah Arendt

Abstract

In this paper I examine the connection that Hannah Arendt makes between natality, freedom and plurality in her conception of political action. Arendt insists that freedom is only possible under conditions of non-sovereignty and this is because human plurality itself, the precondition and raison d'être of politics, is threatened by the predominance of a single perspective and a single force. The freedom that corresponds to plurality can only be nonsovereign, so that the frailties of action, such as unpredictability, irreversibility, limitlessness and ambiguity are not defects that can be explained by the precarious development of political wisdom, but something that is constitutive of political life.