Political Phenomenology of the World,

In this essay I want to show common aspects and features between understanding and the political in Hannah Arendt main works including Human Condition, Life of Mind and essay in understanding. In Arendt’s thought, politic and understanding are the other side of each others and in her main exquisite insights and ideas, political activity or action is the same interpretative reality of human beings.Understanding for Arendt is the cognitive or an experiential side of politics, it is the other side of action and particulars of political action. Understanding implies recognizing new dimensions of events and “a complicated process which never produces unequivocal results”.While irreversibility, plurality, unpredictability, creativity are important features of action in Arendt's thought and the political distinct from the social is correlated to human free and spontaneous action, understanding is also in her view an unending activity which contains perception new aspects of events, an endless and complicated process that never produces decisive and ultimate results. Understanding “is the specifically human way of being alive”.