Make Id Happen: International Womens Day and Hannah Arendt Footnotes #2 ~ New on the Bryan William Brickner Blog

Chicago, IL (PRWEB) March 07, 2015

Id is Latin for it, opened Bryan W. Brickner, so Make It Happen, the theme for this years International Womens Day, can also mean Make Id Happen, a focus on making things like water, food and shelter (animal basics) international priorities for all of us.

In Make Id Happen: International Womens Day and Hannah Arendt Footnotes #2, new on the Bryan William Brickner Blog, utilitarianism, the famed theory of Jeremy Bentham, is noted for its vacuous political theory. In the second part of the series on The Human Condition (1958), Brickner highlights Arendts book for its 21st century political applicability.

In todays post, Arendt is only footnoting, Brickner offered, speaking casually in a passing way, about the utter vacuum within Benthams utilitarianism where nothing is ever useful.

Arendt notes, Brickner followed, that when Bentham derived his happiness principle from the utility principle, he divorced it from usage; she shows he had to in order to preserve a morality a right and wrong.

This divorce exposes a making culprit (the ego), Brickner continued, and this too is Arendt as The Human Condition is a review of the politics of making and ends up asking: Is all of our making the problem?

Arendt builds on the distinction between homo faber and animal rationale, closed Brickner, as she questions the making human (homo faber) as our future and suggests we take a more basic look at ourselves through the lens of animal rationale.

Brickner has a 1997 political science doctorate from Purdue University and is the author of several political theory books, including: The Promise Keepers: Politics and Promises (1999), Article the first of the Bill of Rights (2006), and Shivitti: A Review of Ka-Tzetnik 135633s Vision (2015). He also writes political fiction, such as the novella thereafter (2013), and is the publisher of The Cannabis Papers: A citizens guide to cannabinoids (2011) and The Bryan William Brickner Blog, a resource for the political science of constitutions and the biological science of receptors.

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