This paper examines Hannah Arendt’s contribution to recent debate concerning the urgency of Martin Heidegger’s original ethics. To this end, I turn to Arendt’s existential interpretation of birth as this takes shape in her discourse on the miracle. Though recent commentators have criticized Arendt’s emphasis on the miracle, I argue that she deepens a conversation about birth that Dennis Schmidt, following Jacques Derrida, has set in motion in his efforts to contribute to a more original ethics. Whereas Schmidt prioritizes the helplessness of the newborn, Arendt’s interpretation of the miracle suggests that birth reminds us not simply of our responsibility to help the helpless, but also of our responsibility to prepare the world for the incalculable possibilities of the newcomer. In this, I argue that Arendt brings into focus the ground of our responsibility to make space in the world for what cannot be reduced and decided on in advance by calculative procedure, thereby opening new paths to thinking the task of original ethics.

本文考察了汉娜·阿伦特（Hannah Arendt）对最近有关马丁·海德格尔（Martin Heidegger）原始伦理学的紧迫性的辩论的贡献。为此，我转向阿伦特对出生的存在主义解释，因为这在她关于奇迹的论述中已经形成。尽管最近的评论家批评了阿伦特对奇迹的强调，但我认为她加深了关于出生的对话，丹尼斯·施密特继雅克·德里达之后为推动更原始的道德做出了努力。施密特将新生儿的无助放在首位，而阿伦特对奇迹的解释表明，出生不仅使我们想起了帮助无助者的责任，而且使我们想起了为新移民无法估量的可能性做好准备的责任。在这个