The Freedom to Be Free (re-published 2018)
Hannah Ardent

Contains: 
- Labor, Work, & Action
- Freedom and Politics, a Lecture
- The Freedom to Be Free

I'm always taken by the rigor that philosophy requires to read, understand, and contextualize. The fact that there is a semi-organized cannon through which western thought has been filtered and critiqued through feels like a feat of organization akin to some of the megacities i've had the opportunity to set foot inside. I feel like the ending of the last lecture (The Freedom to Be Free) left me feeling p dismal, as if individuals and their own morality are responsible for moving to words a future good (one that is free). Maybe i'm misunderstanding what she meant, 

'We have little reason to hope that at some time in the not-too-distant future such men will match in practical and theoretical wisdom the men of the American Revolution, who became the Founders of this country. But that little hope, I fear, is the only one we have that freedom in a political sense will not vanish again from the earth for God knows how many centuries.'

It feels like the centuries are passing with each waking day.