%0 Journal Article %T Handeln als Frage der Macht. Ethische ¨¹berlegungen im Anschluss an Hannah Arendt %A Trobinger %A Cristoph %J - %D 2016 %X Sa£¿etak My thesis concerning Hannah Arendt is that power is to be understood only through human action as such. I firstly aim to show which understanding of action we find in Arendt¡¯s works. A person¡¯s actions make their distinctive £¿who¡± recognizable to others and found the phenomenon of plurality. According to the former, power is a social phenomenon, which occurs only between people when they act together. In the second part of my presentation, I aim to unveil the structure of power, which is fleeting, unlimited and unpredictable, and the opposite of violence to Arendt¡¯s understanding. In discovering this structure of power, I propose its political drama: power can neither be saved nor can it be controlled. Therefore, I try to show thirdly, that there are forms of reliability in power in its political meaning, which can be found in Arendt¡¯s notions of forgiving and promise %K ethics %K forgiving %K human action %K intersubjectivity %K phenomenology %K power %K promise %K violence %U https://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=256186