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The Structure of the Concept of Political Freedom in Hannah Arendt’s Philosophy

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Eliasz K.
Avant
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2019
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vol. 10
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issue 1
29-42
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This paper is devoted to clarifying Hannah Arendt’s concept of political freedom (which, at certain points, is markedly obscure) by the means of analysing its structure. My analysis proceeds in three steps. Firstly, I distinguish a pre-political concept of freedom as exercising spontaneity, which is at the root of Arendt’s understanding of political freedom. Secondly, I analyse her account of freedom as exercising action and indicate its relationship to the elementary freedom of spontaneity. Arendt endowed action with a distinguished importance, since she assumed that it is the only activity within the vita activa (the other two being labour and work), which has a special anthropological and axiological significance. According to Arendt, only action allows one to truly experience the fundamental aspect of the human condition, which is the fact of human plurality; it is also the only activity which allows one to exercise specifically public principles, such as solidarity, equality, or justice. Thirdly, I indicate how these two accounts of freedom translate into Arendt’s concept of political freedom. This analysis reveals that the Arendtian concept of political freedom is markedly original. She did not define it in a usual manner, i.e. through indicating bundles of legal and political rights which determine the accepted scope of participation in the public affairs. The inherent part of her concept of political freedom is a specific account of how it must be exercised (i.e. through action). Political freedom understood as the participation in governance exercised through action is not merely an activity of instrumental, but also anthropological and axiological importance, which is due to the special anthropological and axiological meaning of action. In the final section, I discuss the practical dimension of Arendt’s theory. She doubted whether the traditional representative democracy is capable of accommodating her ‘rich’ ideal of political freedom, therefore she proposed an alternative account of political system based on councils. I formulate objections against this proposition and demonstrate that councils would presumably fail to accommodate Arendt’s exacting account of political freedom
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Growing Old in Cities. Council Housing Estates in Trieste as Laboratories for New Perspectives in Urban Planning

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Bricocoli M., Marchigiani E., Bricocoli M. D. o. A. a. P., Marchigiani E. D. o. C. E. a. A.
European Spatial Research and Policy
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2012
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vol. 19
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issue 1
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Significant ageing processes are affecting many regions across Europe and are changing the social and spatial profile of cities. In Trieste, Italy, a joint initiative by the public Health Agency and the Social Housing Agency has developed a programme targeting conditions that allow people to age at home. The outcomes of the programme stress the need to redesign and reorganise the living environment as a way to oppose to the institutionalisation of older people in specialised nursing homes. Based on intensive field work, this contribution presents and discusses the original and innovative inputs that the case study is offering to the Italian and European debate.
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Działania publiczne na rzecz grup zagrożonych wykluczeniem społecznym i ekonomicznym na przykładzie romskiej mniejszości etnicznej w województwie małopolskim

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Świętek A.
Przedsiębiorczość - Edukacja
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2015
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vol. 11. Rola przedsiębiorczości w rozwoju społeczno-gospodarczym układów przestrzennych
401-414
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Romska mniejszość etniczna w Polsce, licząca ok. 25 tys. przedstawicieli – podobnie jak w innych krajach europejskich – jest grupą zagrożoną wykluczeniem społecznym. To negatywne zjawisko szczególnie dotyczy ludności romskiej występującej licznie w województwie małopolskim, zamieszkałym przez Romów od dawna osiadłych i najbiedniejszych w Polsce. Na rzecz polskich Romów od 2004 r. podejmowane są działania publiczne mające na celu podniesienie ich poziomu życia do poziomu większości polskiego społeczeństwa. W ostatnim czasie były one realizowane w ramach Programu na rzecz społeczności romskiej w Polsce na lata 2004–2013. Przedmiotem rozważań autorki podejmowanych w artykule są działania publiczne prowadzone w wyniku Programu na rzecz społeczności romskiej w Polsce jako narzędzia walki z wykluczeniem społecznym i ekonomicznym Romów w województwie małopolskim. Ich celem jest analiza rodzaju i efektywności zadań realizowanych przez władze państwowe w ramach programu na rzecz małopolskich Romów. Dla realizacji tego celu badawczego autorka dokonuje w artykule analizy treści i danych statystycznych ze sprawozdań z realizacji Programu na rzecz społeczności romskiej w Polsce za lata 2004–2012. Dane te zestawia z wynikami własnych badań na temat poziomu życia Romów w województwie małopolskim, przeprowadzonych metodą sondażu diagnostycznego w 2013 r. na grupie badawczej 197 dorosłych Romów. Dokonana analiza wykazuje, że największą celowością spośród realizowanych działań charakteryzują się te podejmowane w zakresie edukacji. Działania na rzecz poprawy sytuacji bytowej Romów – mimo że pochłaniają znaczne środki – mają niewielką efektywność, o czym świadczy niski standard wielu romskich domów oraz ich brak wyposażenia w podstawową infrastrukturę. Jednak dla autorki niniejszego tekstu najbardziej niepokojące jest bardzo niskie zainteresowanie beneficjentów programu (głównie urzędów pracy) zadaniami w zakresie walki z bardzo wysokim bezrobociem wśród małopolskich Romów (ok. 90%).
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The Roma ethnic minority in Poland (of about 25,000 representatives), as in other European countries, is a group at risk of social exclusion. This negative phenomenon particularly concerns the long settled and poorest Polish Roma in the Malopolskie Voivodeship. In 2004 state authorities commenced public actions to raise their standard of living to the level of the Polish majority. These were implemented recently in the “Program for the Roma community in Poland” for the years 2004-2013. In the article, the author considers public action taken during the “Program for the Roma community in Poland” as a tool to fight the social and economic exclusion of the Roma in the Malopolskie Voivodeship. The aim of this article is to analyse and evaluate actions and their effectiveness, conducted by state authorities, during the program for the Roma in Malopolska. In order to achieve this goal, in the article, the author analyses data from statistical reports on the implementation of the “Program for the Roma community in Poland” for the years 2004 – 2012 and compares them with the results of her own research on the standard of living of the Roma in Malopolska. The research was carried out in 2013 using the method of a diagnostic survey, on a research group of 197 adult Roma. The analysis shows that, of all the actions implemented during the program, the most effective are those in the field of education. The efficiency of the public activities carried out to improve the living conditions of the Roma, despite the fact that they consume significant resources, is very low. Further evidence of this is also the low standard and poor furnishing (basic infrastructure) of many Roma households. Instead, for the author, the most worrying is the very low interest of the beneficiaries of the program (mainly Labour Offices) in the fight with a very high level of unemployment among the Roma in Malopolska (approx. 90%).
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