Loneliness, Forgiveness, Communication: Search for the Basis of a Transcendental Deontology Based on H. Arendt’s The Life of the Mind
摘要
This paper investigates Hannah Arendt’s exploration of being, knowledge, and time within a transcendental framework for contemporary deontology. It highlights the present as a collision of temporal dimensions—past, present, and future—and explores human existence as a conflict between past burdens and future anxieties, with thinking enabling transcendence. Conscience and communication emerge as mediators fostering forgiveness, hope, and love, serving as obligations necessary for meaningful coexistence and overcoming loneliness and alienation. Arendt’s alternative to Kant’s categorical imperative emphasizes shared values of responsibility, reconciliation, and ethical action. The study affirms forgiveness and hope as converging in the “eternal now” and addresses the tension in human freedom, offering a transcendental foundation for ethical harmony in a pluralistic world.