Political Science · Western Political Thought
UGC NET 2023 Political Science
Who said that 'It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong'?
AGandhi
BHannah Arendt ✓ Correct
CHabermas
DAmbedkar
Correct answer: (B) Hannah Arendt — Among the options the saying that it is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong is associated with Hannah Arendt, so the answer is Hannah Arendt.
Explanation
★Among the options the saying that it is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong is associated with Hannah Arendt, so the answer is Hannah Arendt.
★She discusses the maxim at length in her work The Life of the Mind.
★Arendt traces the idea back to Socrates, who held it in Plato's Gorgias.
★She does not claim to originate it but uses it to probe the nature of thinking and conscience.
★For Arendt the person who does wrong must live with a wrongdoer, which is worse than being wronged.
★So among these thinkers it is Arendt who is tied to this Socratic principle.
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