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In her major work The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt treats one of the most remarkable figures in human history, "Jesus of Nazareth," as a revolutionary man who brought fundamental changes in the sense of values of the ancient world. The aim of this paper is to reexamine the radical meaning of the revolution performed by Jesus, reconsidering his teachings of the "good" and of the importance of forgiving. As Arendt says, goodness in an absolute sense must be distinguished from the "good-for" or the "excellent" in Greek and Roman antiquity; it became known only with the rise of Christianity. The activity of goodness taught by Jesus is done for nothing but goodness' sake, so that it cannot be genuine when it appears openly and publicly. This extreme tendency to hide from being seen or heard gives the good work its otherworldly character. Therefore, if the "good" is put into the public realm as a cause of political action, it is no longer good and must destroy the common world itself. Another new value discovered by Jesus, according to Arendt, was the power to forgive. This faculty provides the possibility of redemption from the irreversibility inherent in all human actions. It is often said, "To err is human, to forgive divine." Jesus, however, maintains, first, that it is not true that only God has the power to forgive, and, second, that this power does not derive from God, but must be utilized by men toward each other before they can hope to be forgiven by God as well. Since he was not only the discoverer of the role of forgiveness in the realm of human affairs, but also actually showed such a human possibility as an action of freedom, Jesus was considered by people to be a man of "miracles." What is contained in Jesus' teachings of forgiveness is the freedom from vengeance.
- 東京女子大学の論文
- 1999-03-10