On Revolution Hannah Arendt
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Hannah Arendt, who is the author of the book named "On Revolution", explained the relationship between power and liberty with the explanations of other phenomena and terms. She demonstrated the American and French Revolutions in order to clarify her opinions. Before explaining the relationship between power and liberty from Arendt's point of view, firstly we should glance at the meanings of power and liberty separately, according to Hannah Arendt. Hannah Arendt says that power is the capacity to act for public-political purposes. It has not the same meaning with the violence that is considered coercion, force that comes from human nature, and strength that is private property. Unlike all of them, power is the plurality of participants who