![]() ![]() Then, labor activities to grew in prominence, and politics were forever changed. The arrival of the social domain disturbed the between public and private, and labor entered the public sphere. Conversely, the public sphere was the space to exercise political freedom between equal citizens. In a city-state, the private realm was in the household and concerned tasks of biological necessity for the human species. Using the example of the ancient Greek city-state in Part 2, Arendt examines the public and private spheres. By focusing on the vita activa, Arendt is reconstructing a neglected aspect of human life ![]() Philosophers typically understand vita activa in opposition to the contemplative life, or vita contemplative, framing the latter as the highest activity of humanity. Each of these is intimately related to one of the modalities of the vita activa. Her examples of the conditions of human existence include natality (birth), mortality, worldliness, plurality, and the earth. She provides preliminary definitions of labor, work, and action, and she clarifies her notion of the human condition as the prevailing, but by no means absolute, features of our existence. Part 1 serves as an introduction to Arendt’s argument. ![]()
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