{"id":227,"date":"2025-01-03T11:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themes.getmotopress.com\/2025\/?p=227"},"modified":"2025-01-03T11:31:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T11:31:26","slug":"the-human-condition-by-hannah-arendt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themes.getmotopress.com\/2025\/2025\/01\/03\/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 class=\"is-style-default\">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-default is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"is-style-default\">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":241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[8,6,9],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-science","tag-nature","tag-new","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themes.getmotopress.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themes.getmotopress.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themes.getmotopress.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themes.getmotopress.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themes.getmotopress.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/themes.getmotopress.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/themes.getmotopress.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themes.getmotopress.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themes.getmotopress.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themes.getmotopress.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themes.getmotopress.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}