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In this article, we explored one of the most important political philosophers of the 20th century Hannah Arendt's views on the power of the will, and the close relationship she established between will and freedom, and freedom and action. The issue of will inevitably has an important place in the history of thought. In these discussions, who or what determines/directs the will basically constitute the essence of the issue, and the issue is considered together with the concepts of freedom, responsibility, determinism, choice, and action. The examination of the problem is closely related to almost all fields of philosophy: A series of problems are always closely related to the state of the will, from the theological discussions about God's will and human freedom, to the knowledge of man about himself and the world, and to considering human being as a moral agent. Arendt claims that while traditional Western thought generally ignores the will, on the other hand, freedom is approached with suspicion and, ultimately, a picture is drawn in which human being is limited by the causality of the external world in response to his/her apparent freedom, and she openly denies this picture.

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