On pages 87-88, Arendt discusses the necessary withdrawal
the thinking ego must take from the common world of appearances to contemplate
something deeper. She says that the world of appearances can distract the mind
and can conceal the mind from viewing an invisible Being that reveals itself
only to the mind. She also goes onto say that our minds have a natural aversion
to this way of thinking as if we might discover something that is distasteful
to us, which goes back to her theory of the banality of evil. Overall,
withdrawal from the common sense world of appearances, self-destructive
tendency, and awareness of the mind’s activity is all part of the intramural
warfare between common sense and thought.
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