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Hannah Arendt understood something radical: ‘Instead of being born with an innate dignity, its existence hinges on external conditions. We must, therefore, continually practise dignity’
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Dignity isn’t bestowed, it must be continually practised | Psyche Ideas
Reckoning with the complex history of dignity reveals its fragility and what Hannah Arendt recognised as its conditionality