Though not Max Scheler or Henri Bergson, this philosopher used the term Homo faber to refer to man's ability to control his environment through tools in one work, which sought to contrast the vita activa with the vita contemplativa.
Though not Max Scheler or Henri Bergson, this philosopher used the term Homo faber to refer to man's ability to control his environment through tools in one work, which sought to contrast the vita activa with the vita contemplativa. This thinker also wrote a work which posits that certain anti-utilitarian institutions are inexplicably stable from their shapelessness, and that one man only had to resort to violence because of Ernst Röhm's homosexuality. That work also coined the term "secret societies in broad daylight" and dedicated a section to the secret police. This author of The Life of the Mind and The Human Condition also used the phrase "banality of evil" to help explain the Holocaust. For 10 points, who is this author of The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem?
Though not Max Scheler or Henri Bergson, this philosopher used the term Homo faber to refer to man's ability to control his environment through tools in one work, which sought to contrast the vita activa with the vita contemplativa.
Hannah Arendt