The possibility of new beginnings

Abstract

The human capacity to establish new beginnings in the world is discussed. The question that guides the discussion refers to the possibility of the dignity of politics in dark times and in times of crisis of democracy and the rule of law. It is based on the assumption that the guarantee of freedom is the basis of the Democratic State of Rights, so freedom must be guaranteed. In order to understand freedom as a presupposition of democracy, it aims to elucidate the human capacity to bring novelty to the world, to begin, to start. To this end, Hannah Arendt's studies on the activity of action - where the discourse becomes essential - and the ability to begin are used as the theoretical foundation; from this it is sought to understand freedom. The research is bibliographical and uses as a procedure the reading, analysis, comprehension and theoretical reconstruction of the reflections of Hannah Arendt in the works The human condition, The life of the spirit, Of the revolution, Origins of totalitarianism and Lessons on the political philosophy of Kant and in the texts What is freedom? And what is authority? It is pointed out that the dignity of politics finds its answer in freedom as the sense of the foundation of political communities and in the human possibility of establishing new beginnings.