Creation is the source of legitimacy

Questioning the “Original Conditions of Politics” Hannah Arendt, “On Revolution” | Good Book, Good Day

• How did the new constitution gain legitimacy?

• In America, which has cut itself off from the European tradition, it cannot rely on external absolutes (God, church, etc.) in politics

• The act of “founding” a new one that lasts is a source of legitimacy.

• Japanese people do not have a sense of accomplishment that they founded the postwar system by themselves.

  • The authority created by the act of creation did not dwell in the postwar system.

• Hannah Arendt. “About the Revolution”

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