{"id":34,"date":"2023-12-01T14:10:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T14:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themes.getmotopress.com\/2024\/?p=34"},"modified":"2023-12-01T14:10:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T14:10:34","slug":"the-human-condition-by-hannah-arendt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themes.getmotopress.com\/2024\/2023\/12\/01\/the-human-condition-by-hannah-arendt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Published in 1958, \u201cThe Human Condition\u201d is Hannah Arendt\u2019s take on how \u201chuman activities\u201d 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-style-plain is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow is-style-plain--1\">\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>Published in 1958, \u201cThe Human Condition\u201d is Hannah Arendt\u2019s take on how \u201chuman activities\u201d should be and have been understood throughout Western history. Arendt is interested in the&nbsp;vita activa&nbsp;(active life) as contrasted with the&nbsp;vita contemplativa&nbsp;(contemplative life) and concerned that the debate over the relative status of the two has blinded us to important insights about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themes.getmotopress.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themes.getmotopress.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themes.getmotopress.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themes.getmotopress.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themes.getmotopress.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themes.getmotopress.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/themes.getmotopress.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themes.getmotopress.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themes.getmotopress.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themes.getmotopress.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themes.getmotopress.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}