ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book begins with Hans-Georg Gadamer's observation of Kant's characteristic Enlightenment 'prejudice against prejudice' and his discussion of how it had led Kant to misunderstand and misrepresent the politically-derived sensus communis. With the onset of Cartesian forms of universality, Arendt argued, a new form of 'logic' was introduced, analytic logic, which grew in influence with each discovery of the workings of forces that lay behind the world of appearances by experimental science. The new Cartesian concept and place of logic, divested from the public sphere and the place it reserved for man to disclose himself through words and deeds, also contained the seed of a new concept of man, a seed that germinated during the Enlightenment period.
