Summary
Hannah Arendt: Conditio humana
Conditio humana, Hannah Arendt's masterpiece is one of the highlights of twentieth century political philosophy. The question Arendt answers is as old as man: what is it that makes a man a man? Her answer, which stems from the great tradition of political philosophy from Plato and Aristotle, through Augustine and Machiavelli to Marx, Nietzsche and authors of the twentieth century, focuses on the notion of human action. What is specifically human, what distinguishes man from other living forms is neither soul, nor consciousness, nor language, but his power to act and, by acting, to produce.
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