{"id":556,"date":"2023-11-03T07:18:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T07:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kuwopa.wordpress.com\/2023\/11\/03\/the-human-condition-by-hannah-arendt\/"},"modified":"2023-11-03T07:18:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T07:18:22","slug":"the-human-condition-by-hannah-arendt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kuwopa.at\/index.php\/the-human-condition-by-hannah-arendt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Published in 1958, &#8222;The Human Condition&#8220; is Hannah Arendt&#8217;s take on how &#8222;human activities&#8220; should be and have been understood throughout Western history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arendt is interested in the&nbsp;<em>vita activa<\/em>&nbsp;(active life) as contrasted with the&nbsp;<em>vita contemplativa<\/em>&nbsp;(contemplative life) and concerned that the debate over the relative status of the two has blinded us to important insights about the&nbsp;<em>vita activa<\/em>&nbsp;and the way in which it has changed since ancient times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She distinguishes three sorts of activity (labor, work, and action) and discusses how they have been affected by changes in Western history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Men in plural can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.<\/p>\n<cite>Hannah Arendt<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How &#8222;human activities&#8220; should be and have been understood throughout Western history. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kuwopa.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kuwopa.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kuwopa.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kuwopa.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kuwopa.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kuwopa.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kuwopa.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kuwopa.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kuwopa.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kuwopa.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}