Considering the scenario described in the third vignette, one may assume that Hannah Arendt would choose the path of telling the truth and publishing the study. She would justify her choice by interpreting a Latin idiom meaning “Let the truth be done, though the world perish” (Arendt 546). In such a way, she would reflect the impact this study would have on the planet’s future, even if, in the beginning, other researchers distort its initial intention.
In her ponderings on the matter of truth in politics, Hannah Arendt concludes that “conceptually, we may call truth what we cannot change; metaphorically, it is the ground on which we stand and the sky that stretches above us” (Arendt 574). Thus, it means that a person’s primary intention in the world is to make sure that they exercise social justice and freedom every time unless world peace requires the sacrifice of any other virtue for the sake of a better cause.
Work Cited
Arendt, Hannah. The Portable Hannah Arendt. Penguin Books, 2000.