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Re:Googlers Are Protesting Company’s Deals with Big Oil by AlexB138 on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @03:09PM (#21456122)
> My perspective comes from Hannah Arendt and her opinion that goodness demonstrated publicly necessarily becomes corrupted

I checked your profile for info to contact you privately to ask, but there wasn't anything, so my apology for the public request. Could you suggest any of Arendt's writings, especially around this subject? I've seen her referenced in interesting contexts and would love to read more.

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Re:Googlers Are Protesting Company’s Deals with Big Oil by leftyted on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @04:59PM (#21457188)
The bit about the impossibility of doing good in public is from The Human Condition. She gets it from Machievelli, who dared to "teach men how not to be good".

I'd recommend a collection of three essays called Crises of the Republic. If you like that, then check out The Human Condition.

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