![]() ![]() The loss of the world and worldly alienation in modernity is caused by private economic interests winning out over the public realm of speech and action, and man as a laboring animal triumphing over man as a political animal, endangering both the polity and the condition of humanness. Arendt makes a distinction within the vita activa between public and private life, which rests upon Aristotle’s claim that man is z?on politikon-a political animal. Her study investigates the vita activa (the activities of human life)-labor, work, and action-in order to think about the distinction between the vita activa and the vita contemplativa (life of the mind). Modernity for Arendt meant a loss of the world. Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition is a provocative treatise on what it means to be human. ![]()
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