The Theory Of Hannah Arendt's Thinking And Its Educational Implications

With the development of science and technology, human accelerate the pace of production and consumption greatly and understand themselves from its increasingly consumer desire, almost all human activities become life skills. To some extent, human has been leveled up to a common scale and become "a replaceable tooth on a gear ", they only focus on immediate goals because they have no time and no interest in thinking about life. An urgent topic is how to start from the "internal dialogue" of human's spiritual world to find the location of the individual in the world, the independence of the individual spiritual life and explore the extra of "the Characteristics of the Thoughtless Times". Hannah Arendt's reflection theory is the just re-examination of human mental activities, it shows the understanding and care to the nature of human.Arendt's real life seems rough, but she remained a unified thought process, she has always centered on life and thought what people were doing through her own life experience. Based on this, this article makes a sketch-like description on Hannah Arendt and her thought, and specifically elaborated the formation of her theory. Arendt regarded "thinking" as a new weapon to find their own identities in society when she first referred to the theme of "thinking" in the interpretation of Kafka. The Eichmann trial aroused Hannah Arendt from deeply investigating the activity of "thinking". Arendt returned to the philosophical thinking of human spiritual life in her later years.The theory of Arendt's thinking is based on the fact that thinking is the capacity of every person instead of a privilege. When we think, we are facing all the lovely things, such as beauty, wisdom, justice and so on. As a by-product of thinking, the conscience can prevent the emergency of mediocre evil to a certain extent. As invisible matter, thinking can appear in the real world through the activity of judge. This paper set Socrates as a model of thinking to show the activity of "thinking" itself and its significance. More than a silent self dialogue, thinking can also stimulate others to think, thus make it positive and public.The theory of Arendt's thinking return to the basic level of "human", thus make it more educational. Starting from the article of "The Crisis in Education", this paper elaborates Arendt's educational thoughts and tries to introduce the theory of Arendt's thinking into the view of education according to the specificity of education field. First, through distinguishing thinking from knowing, this paper hold the view that if education is only for the knowledge and skills training, it will be a downgrading of education and human. In never-ending pursuit of significance, thinking must overstep the limit of knowledge to give students an integrated education. Secondly, we rely on ourselves as individuals, the relationship between I and me is a wonderful existence in education, thinking while staying with ourselves gives us a better understanding of ourselves and achieve transcendence. Furthermore, based on the hidden relationship between thinking and acting, this paper believe that everyone has the capacity of "thinking" and thus upgrade his or her position in the world and achieve distinction.