Andreas Urstadt

The Refugee Committee Andreas Urstadt

Humanists on the full sense means Zoologists, who knows that zoo meant any living creature, any ... some day some thought they re not meant ... Anything political is with Hannah Arendt and Rome (Cicero) cultivating the mind. From that any true humanism is not verities, is not beauty, is not truth - but freedom. Humanism is a matter of taste and belongs to the world and is the world, it s not nation or a specific nation, it s not ego and it s not person. It s not art and it s not the statesman. It s not restricted to the polis and it s world. One could say then, a horizonal. "Taste debarbarizes the world of the beautiful by not being overwhelmed by it, it takes care of the beautiful in it s own `personal` way and thus produces a `culture`. Hannah Arendt, The Crisis in Culture "Taste is the political capacity that truly humanizes the beautiful and creates a culture", says Arendt, here Arendt is wrong, it s not created, it emerges. A true humanist is someone with no interest to the world, means, who is not fixed to any business and any party and sees the world with no interest - this is similar to the Chinese understanding of being not fixed to something or blocked by something and therefore with whole disposability. A true humanist cares from that constellation. And with Hannah Arendt, beyond the coercion which each speciality imposes upon us (say verities, beauty, truth etc.). "This humanism is the result ... of an attitude that knows how to take care and preserve and admire the things of the world. ... it has the task of mediating between ..." Hannah Arendt. But it s not even admire the things of the world, but the whole world instead. Letting freedom. And this is what being disposable also means, freedom.