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Hannah Arendt: The Thinker Who Escaped Totalitarianism
Experience is the sole object of our thinking! Nothing else!” This was Hannah Arendt’s declaration at the “Hannah Arendt Works Seminar” in 1972. The event was organized by the Toronto Society for the Study of Social and Political Thought. Arendt was originally invited as a guest, but she insisted on giving a speech at the conference. Hannah Arendt’s oeuvre is largely concerned with thinking. In her “Thought Diary” she asked: “Is there a non-authoritarian way of thinking?” At the outset of “The Human Condition”, she stated her intention: “What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing.” When she went to…
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The Interview Question That Revealed the Ideal Public Relations Manager
A company recruits two public relations managers with high salaries. For this interview, the general manager racked his brains to come up with a novel interview question to test these excellent interviewers. Because most of the candidates have gone through multiple interviews now, the general interview questions are not difficult for them at all. Before asking questions, they have already thought about the answers. The general manager thought for a few days and finally came up with an interview question. On the day of the interview, several candidates arrived early. The general manager looked at the interviewees, and saw that they looked very complacent, and at a glance, he knew…
