The study of Public Administration needs a politics study.
Meanwhile, a vision of politics is based on basic philosophical ideas, like
what is the best form of government or the more just political system. This is
the responsibility of political philosophy, reflecting on these things, asking
the same questions since Socrates and Plato.
Hannah Arendt, german political theorist, has a special look about
politics. She sees politics as the most perfect human activity, in which we get
the excellence and the human condition. The public space, for Arendt, is place
of liberty. The action and speech always start something new.
Arendt is thinking a world against totalitarian governments.
Absolute power led men to the extreme in the concentration camps, almost to animality,
and killed millions of people. They banned the political dimension of humans.
For Arendt it’s politics, language and living in community what
distinguishes humans. She uses as an example the idea of politics of the
ancient greeks. They met in the agora to discuss and talk about problems of the
polis. In this space they were all same to participate, but different to
express their point of view. However, was a slave city. Only a few
participate in politics: the aristocrats. In addition, women and metics were
excluded. This is the biggest problem of greek democracy and makes it
impossible today.
