![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Following her clear and careful laying out of each word's meaning, it becomes hard to deny her argument for the life of "action" as the highest human goal. The book sets about distinguishing between our different activities under the categories of "labour", "work", and "action" - each of which Arendt carefully redefines as a different level of active engagement with the world. ![]() In its arguments about the kind of lives we should lead and the political engagement we should strive for, Arendts interpretative skills come to the fore, in a brilliant display of what high-level interpretation can achieve. Arendt's aim is to lay out an argument for political engagement and active participation in society as the highest goals of human life and to this end, she sets about defining a hierarchy of ways of living a "vita activa," or active life. Hannah Arendts 1958 The Human Condition was an impassioned philosophical reconsideration of the goals of being human. In its arguments about the kind of lives we should lead and the political engagement we should strive for, Arendt's interpretative skills come to the fore, in a brilliant display of what high-level interpretation can achieve for critical thinking. Hannah Arendt's 1958 The Human Condition was an impassioned philosophical reconsideration of the goals of being human. With Dr Anthony Lang - Head of the Schook of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. ![]()
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