ABSTRACT

I argue that educators, by introducing young people to various ways of responding to wrongdoing, help prepare them for the task of acting in and taking responsibility for the world. I begin by (a) introducing Hannah Arendt’s understanding of the world, the characteristics of action as unpredictable, boundless and irreversible, i.e. the frailty of human affairs. I then move to (b) what Arendt calls the ‘power of forgiveness.’ Forgiving is an action, and as such is free and unpredictable. Moreover, (c) forgiving concerns the person not the deed. To understand the implications of this, I introduce Arendt’s understanding of being a person in distinction to being merely human. I then ask whether all deeds are forgivable, which brings me to (d) the new crime against humanity. Finally, I ask (e) whether one can be reconciled to acts, such as genocide and whether solidarity with the wrongdoer is possible.

摘要

我认为，教育工作者通过向年轻人介绍应对不当行为的各种方式，帮助他们为在世界上采取行动和承担责任的任务做好准备。我首先（a）介绍汉娜·阿伦特对世界的理解，即行动的不可预测、无限和不可逆转的特征，即人类事务的脆弱性。然后我转向（b）阿伦特所说的“宽恕的力量”。宽恕是一种行动，因此是自由且不可预测的。此外，(c) 宽恕与行为无关。为了理解这一点的含义，我介绍了阿伦特对作为一个人的理解，而不是仅仅作为一个人。然后我问是否所有的行为都是可以原谅的，这使我想到 (d) 新的危害人类罪。最后，我问（e）一个人是否可以接受行为，