Hannah Arendt · Politics
Watching millions of refugees stripped of citizenship and rendered rightless, Arendt exposed a flaw at the heart of human rights: a person who belongs to no political community has no one to guarantee his ‘inalienable’ rights - revealing a deeper right beneath them all.
You learned Arendt’s claim that ‘the rights of man’ collapse for the person who belongs to no political community, and that there is a prior ‘right to have rights.’ Explain in your own words what this deeper right is and why she thought it more fundamental.
Leads to Edmund Burke.
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