Wolfram Eilenberger

For Heidegger, true human autonomy had barely anything to do with purely rational decisions, calculations, or even prescriptive rules, but was rather about the courage required to take hold of one’s own existence at exceptional moments of existential crisis.

Consequently, Weil refines her observations from 1934 into the
paradox of an infinite belief in growth in a world of finite resources.

that the concept and conception of human rights since the French Revolution contained a crucial mistake of birth. It became apparent in the fact that

the moment human beings lacked their own government and had to fall back upon their minimum rights, no authority was left to protect them and no institution was willing to guarantee them.

This essentially contradictory character of an unconditional right to protection

In Arendt’s view, the first contradiction in these natural “innate rights” lies in the fact that the idea of the “human being as such” (singular) conflicts with the notion of the human being as essentially part of a community of human beings (plural!), and hence locally and historically rooted.

the cruelest conflicts in history were all distinguished by their lack of any precise definable goal (and that it was the actual absence of a defined goal that spurred on the cruelty still further)