Volume 60, Issue 2, Spring 2016
Andrew Benjamin
Pages 253-276
The Problem of Authority in Arendt and Aristotle
The aim of the paper is to examine the limits of Aristotle’s and Arendt’s contributions to a philosophical anthropology. By focusing on the concept of ‘potentiality’—and thus the ‘good life’ as a potentiality awaiting actualization—the limit emerges from the way Aristotle understands ‘life.’ His discussion of slavery is pivotal in this regard.