(Being-in-the-world and natality in Hannah Arendt’s thought)

The aim of my paper is to show how the concept on natality plays an important role into Hannah Arendt’s thought, in contrast with Martin Heidegger’s concept of being-toward-death. While in Sein und Zeit Heidegger defines the feature of Dasein as its being-toward-death, Arendt underlines as the natality gives to human being its most important peculiarity – or, using heideggerian words, its ontic characterization. Coming into the world, human being receives the possibility to act; acting is what allows mankind to start something new: we experience our deepest possibility to be free and to create something new only acting and behaving, that are also the most important features of our life into society (what Arendt calls polis, referring to the ancient Greek city). With our being into the world, human being comes to the public space and inaugurates the political and social dimension of its life