In the moment of action, annoyingly enough, it turns out, first, that the "absolute", that which is "above" the senses - the true, good, beautiful - is not graspable, because no one knows concretely what it is. To be sure, everyone has a conception of it, but each concreetely imagines it as something entirely different. Insofar as action is dependent on the plurality of men, the first catastrophe of Western philosophy, which in its last thinkers ultimately wants to take control of action, is the requirement of a unity that on principle proves impossible excpet under tirannny. Second, that to serve the ends of action anything will do as the absolute - race, for instance, or a classless society, and so forth. All things are equally expedient, "anything goes". Reality appears to offer actionn as little resistance as it would the craziest theory that some charlatan might come up with. Everything is possible. Third, that by applying the absolute - justice, for example, or the "ideal" in general (as in Nietzsche) - to an end, one first makes unjust, bestial actions possible, because the "ideal", justice itself, no longer exists as a yardstick, but has become an achievable, producible, end within the world. In other words, the realization of philosophy abolishes philosophy, the realization of the "absolute" indeed abolishes the absolute from the world. And so finally the ostensible realization of man simply abolishes men.

Hannah Arendt,
do Denktagebuch, citado em The Promise of Politics (editado por Jerome Kohn).

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