한나 아렌트에 있어서 탄생성, 사랑과 교육

Natality, Love, and Education in Hannah Arendt

In the fields of political theory, philosophy, modern and cultural studies, Hannah Arendt(1906-75) is a critical thinker and an acknowledged figure, and particularly also is an odd, even awkward figure to turn to if one is seeking to inquire her philosophy of natality: It is very difficult to understand Arendt's philosophy of natality, for her philosophy is based on the phenomenological, existential, and christian theological background,‘Natality’ is central to Hannah Arendt's understanding of political life. It refers to the fact that human beings are constantly born into the world, and are continually in need of introduction to the world and one another. This is what makes natality the “essence of education.” Therefore, Arendt's term for the notion of human beginning is natality by which she describes three human experiences; factual natality, political natality; and theoretical natality. And then the first birth is factual natality in which humans are born into the world, the second birth is political natality, in which we insert ourselves into the human world with word and deed, and the third birth is theoretical natality, timelessness of thought what Rousseau called the second birth. Hannah Arendt offered a critique of “progressive education” in the United States. And also Arendt inveighed against a narrow instrumentalism, an approach that imagines that education is centrally about imparting the skills needed to work in the marketplace of the day. In this paper, I shall try to analyze and consider “natality, love, education in Hannah Arendt,” and to inquire its implications for Korean reality of education. Finally, I think that Arendt's philosophy of natality can be applied directly to the situation of education we face today. Summing up: Ⅰ. Arendt's life and philosophical background. Ⅱ. Natality as philosophical theme: 1. Human experience and natality; 2. Natality and mortality; 3. Category of natality and love. Ⅲ. Natality, amor mundi and education: 1. Natality as essence of education; 2. The condition of natality and amor mundi; 3. Amor mundi and education.