Can there be alternative-facts? Hannah Arendt’s answer and its political implications

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  • Rafael Lembert Kasper Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18012/arf.2016.41956

Palavras-chave:

Truth, facts, . Politics, opinion, Hannah Arendt

Resumo

This paper addresses the current discussion on “alternative-facts” and public lying focusing on Hannah Arendt’s take on the relation between truth, reality and politics. It argues that much of what is assumed as novel and unexpected in the ongoing discussion has been anticipated by Arendt in the 1950’s and the 1960’s. Furthermore, it states that her insights and categories provide a deeper understanding of the matter, thus contributing to dismiss common dead-locks in recent debate. Still, there are, in Arendt’s analysis, perplexities – explored and unexplored by her – that deserve our attention in order to grasp the nature of facts and truth. In this line, this paper answers the question put forward in its title – Can there be alternative-facts? - relying on a (Arendt inspired) defense of objective truth, which requires a specific definition of politics and some qualified ontological claims about political reality.

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Biografia do Autor

Rafael Lembert Kasper, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Doutorado em Filosofia pelo Programa de Pós-]Graduação em Filosofia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul com período saduíche na Freie Universität, Berlim, Alemanha.

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Revista Aufklärung. v.5, n. 2 (2019), Maio-Agosto

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2018-09-30

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Kasper, R. L. (2018). Can there be alternative-facts? Hannah Arendt’s answer and its political implications. Aufklärung: Journal of Philosophy, 5(2), p.87–96. https://doi.org/10.18012/arf.2016.41956

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v. 5 n. 2 (2018): Revista Aufklärung. v.5, n. 2 (2019), Maio-Agosto

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