| FOREWORD, by Livio Melina | | xi | |
| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | | xv | |
| INTRODUCTION | | xvii | |
| I. The Biographical and Bibliographical Context of Our Study | | 1 | |
| II. Scott and Stark on Arendt and Augustine | | 13 | |
| III. Arendt's Theory of Action | | 25 | |
| A. What Is an Action for Arendt? |
| | 25 | |
| 1. Action as epsilonντepsilonλepsilonχepsilonια or epsilonνepsilonργepsilonια |
| | 26 | |
| 2. Action as a Second Birth ù A New Beginning Manifesting the Agent |
| | 45 | |
| a. Action as a New Beginning |
| | 45 | |
| b. Action as Manifesting the Agent |
| | 57 | |
| c. The Relation between Speech and Action |
| | 59 | |
| B. The Basic Condition for Action in Arendt's Thought: Human Plurality |
| | 61 | |
| 1. Arendt contra Heidegger: Human Plurality as the Medium of Action |
| | 61 | |
| 2. Action and Intersubjectivity: To Act Is to Act in Concert |
| | 65 | |
| 3. Love and Hannah Arendt |
| | 68 | |
| IV. Arendt and Moral Considerations | | 75 | |
| | 75 | |
| 1. Why We Can Examine The Life of the Mind for Arendt's "Moral Considerations" |
| | 75 | |
| 2. The Central Themes of The Life of the Mind |
| | 76 | |
| | 79 | |
| | 80 | |
| 1. The Meaning of Thoughtlessness |
| | 81 | |
| Objection: Thoughtlessness and Culpability |
| | 85 | |
| 2. The Meaning of Thinking |
| | 92 | |
| | 94 | |
| 3. How Does Thinking Condition Anyone against Committing Grave Evil? |
| | 99 | |
| a. Thinking and Conscience |
| | 100 | |
| Objection: Formalism, Relativism, Moral Non-cognitivism? |
| | 104 | |
| Critique: Intellectualism ù Arendt and Virtue |
| | 113 | |
| Comparison: Arendt and the Christian Notion of Conscience |
| | 118 | |
| | 119 | |
| i. The "Liberation of Judgment" |
| | 119 | |
| ii. The "Enlarged Mentality" |
| | 126 | |
| Excursus: The Imagination |
| | 127 | |
| Application: Imagination and Judgment |
| | 132 | |
| c. Thinking and Gratitude |
| | 136 | |
| Comparison: Gratitude as Fundamental Christian Moral Principle |
| | 141 | |
| Conclusion, Prospects, and Transition |
| | 142 | |
| | 143 | |
| | 143 | |
| a. The Central Theme of "Willing" |
| | 143 | |
| b. Justification of the Close Attention to the Augustine Chapter |
| | 146 | |
| 1. The Problem of the New ù The Will as the Faculty of Beginning |
| | 146 | |
| a. Problems with Aristotle's Account |
| | 146 | |
| b. Creation as a Paradigm of a New Beginning |
| | 148 | |
| c. Foundation as a Paradigm of a New Beginning |
| | 151 | |
| d. The Hint of a Solution in St. Augustine |
| | 152 | |
| e. The Problem of the New and the Passions |
| | 154 | |
| 2. Arendt's Augustine Chapter |
| | 156 | |
| a. The Will in Itself in The Confessions |
| | 156 | |
| Excursus: Some Moral Implications of Arendt's and Augustine's Phenomenological Analysis of the Will as Split between Velle and Nolle |
| | 160 | |
| b. The Will in Relation to the Other Faculties in On the Trinity |
| | 163 | |
| c. The Will Seen from the Perspective of the Temporality of the Human Faculties in The City of God |
| | 167 | |
| | 171 | |
| V. Elements and Fundamental Motifs of Arendt's Action Theory and Moral Thought in Der Liebesbegriff | | 173 | |
| | 173 | |
| A. Presentation of the Text |
| | 174 | |
| | 174 | |
| | 177 | |
| 3. Love as Caritas Socialis |
| | 181 | |
| Excursus: Another Solution in Augustine? |
| | 184 | |
| B. Persisting Fundamental Motifs: The Temporality and Dependency of Human Existence |
| | 187 | |
| | 187 | |
| | 188 | |
| a. Temporality in Der Liebesbegriff and in Her Later Writings |
| | 188 | |
| b. The Significance of Human Temporality for Hannah Arendt's Theory of Action and Her Moral Thought |
| | 190 | |
| i. Only a Temporal Being Can Act in Arendt's Sense |
| | 190 | |
| ii. Human Temporality and Arendt's Moral Thought: A Temporal Being Needs to Remember in Order to Find the Meaning of His Existence |
| | 192 | |
| | 195 | |
| a. Human Conditionedness in Der Liebesbegriff and in Arendt's Later Writings |
| | 195 | |
| i. Arendt on Human Conditionedness in The Human Condition |
| | 195 | |
| ii. Mortality, Natality, and Plurality as Structure of Der Liebesbegriff |
| | 197 | |
| iii. Mortality (Chapter 1): The Turn to the Future and Analogues in Arendt's Later Writings |
| | 198 | |
| iv. Natality (Chapter 2): The Turn to the Past and Analogues in Arendt's Later Writings |
| | 201 | |
| v. Human Plurality (Chapter 3): Man's Common Descent and Analogues in Arendt's Later Writings |
| | 209 | |
| b. The Significance of Human Conditionedness for Hannah Arendt's Theory of Action and Her Moral Thought |
| | 211 | |
| i. Action as an End in Itself |
| | 211 | |
| ii. Action as Interaction |
| | 215 | |
| iii. Man between Resentment and Gratitude |
| | 219 | |
| | 221 | |
| CONCLUSION | | 223 | |
| ENDNOTES | | 231 | |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | | 344 | |
| PERMISSIONS | | 357 | |
| INDEX | | 358 | |
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