Needful Freedom: on the friendship of Hans Jonas and Hannah Arendt

and why care is worth it

I’m at the Universität Heidelberg, which is where Hannah Arendt also did her PhD. She did it with Karl Jaspers in the same department I’m in now. There are many other connections to the places I am and have studied and worked and Hannah and also to Hans Jonas, but I won’t go into them. I mention them because this is personal for me and even though I am experimenting here in trying to write it less personally, that is the real reasoning behind it and why it comes to you as part of my diaries in navigational mind, which is what this blog is at heart. It is also my way of trying to feel into caring as the verb that is the real heart of mattering, and by mattering I mean coming into existence, the ver beingness of life.

Note: I experimented a bit with Claude writing this one and I don’t like the result. Live and learn. It has been interesting to try out AI for writing but it just ends up making the piece worse than it would have been. I will try and go back and write this again from scrat…