The Human Condition

The sudden appearance of creative work is full of unexpected insight, and "human condition" is more relevant in many respects than it was when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt is thinking about the role of human beings in terms of people's behavior. It has power. At that time, Arendt discovered the problem that the human institution and political freedom are gradually decreasing, but the paradox controlled the results of our actions as human strength increased with technical investigations and humanitarian investigations It will be impossible. This new edition was published with the 40th anniversary of the first publication, including an improved and expanded index and a new introduction by the famous Arendt scholar Margaret Canovan, a sharp analysis of the book. I will study the discussion of the book and its current relevance. As a classic of political and social theory, "human state" is a work proved to be eternal and permanent.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) is one of America's leading social theorists. Her Kant 's political philosophy and love, and Saint Augustine' s lecture was also published by the University Press of the University of Chicago.

Hannah Arendt is one of my favorite political philosophers and has become a clear and powerful thinker on human condition. However, "Eichmann of Jerusalem" and "Revolutionary Period" gave me a big impression, but I am not so enthusiastic about "human condition". Here, Arendt aims for a more comprehensive and ambitious thing than the previous one, but I feel it is more routine and limited. Among this enormous work (though it has over 300 pages, but it feels long), Hannah Arendt analyzes the state of the three people, labor, work, and behavior. Labor is a slave in a natural state, a human must do: his body works hard to gain the necessary nutrients and survival for a day's living. Work is like a craftsman, expressing one's identity through physical labor and diligence. Behavior is a human role in diverse actions - imagination to think, talk, invent, and equal respects to them, to improve themselves in their eyes

Behavior is the only activity that occurs directly among men ... It is not the fact that humans live in the world living on the earth in response to diversified human condition. All aspects of human condition are related to politics, but this pluralism is particularly state - not only the second necessary condition in all political life, but also the state of each treaty. Another way to understand the importance of promotion and diversity is to understand that behavior becomes meaningless unless someone else exists and gives meaning. The meaning of action and the identity of an actor can only be established within the context of human diversity. The quality of this communication and information disclosure is clear in that Arendt relates actions in the most focused way.