Evan Harmon - Memex

Vita activa

(labor, work, and action)
from The Human Condition

Arendt is interested in the vita activa (active life) as contrasted with the vita contemplativa (contemplative life) and concerned that the debate over the relative status of the two has blinded us to important insights about the vita activa and the way in which it has changed since ancient times.

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