Part I - Acts and scenes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 August 2023
Summary
To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin (as the Greek word archein, ‘to begin’, ‘to lead’, and eventually ‘to rule’ indicates), to set something into motion (which is the original meaning of the Latin agere). Because they are initium, newcomers and beginners by virtue of birth, men take initiative, are prompted into action.
Hannah Arendt- Type
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- Alarums and ExcursionsImprovising Politics on the European Stage, pp. 19 - 20Publisher: Agenda PublishingPrint publication year: 2019