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Hannah Arendt analysed a few categories of vita activa. Explain.

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  • Western Political Thought

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The tradition from Plato ranked the vita contemplativa, the life of thought, above the vita activa and lumped all doing into one inferior class. In The Human Condition (1958), Hannah Arendt leaves the ranking aside and takes the active life apart. It holds three activities, labour, work and action, each answering to a condition of…

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  • Labour: Animal Laborans
  • Work: Homo Faber
  • Action: The Political Activity
  • The Modern Inversion
  • Limits
  • Conclusion
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