Hannah Arendt: a natalidade enquanto condição humana para a Política.

Abstract

This research demonstrates, from the thought of Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), the way in which the natality rate is related to the action, implying in the political responsibility. For the author, being born is a political category, because from each new being it is likely to come up in the world new actions. The birth also becomes, in Arendt's view, a link capable of connecting humans because since the birth the new human being begins to live and share a world that is common to all. This, unlike nature (which is cyclical and constantly remade), needs human actions to be preserved. Thus, because of men are born in a pluralistic world and possess the ability to act, actions need not only a space to occur (public space), but also of ethics, since each being is an initiator, able to trigger new events that impact the world, such agents are also responsible both for their actions and the world.That is, the thought of Arendt enables us to state that the natality rate, as human condition for politics, is a kind of commitment of all men and women to the world (what Arendt called also political responsibility) simply because they were born and have the ability to act.