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The Human Condition

Author：Sahar Aurore Saeidnia、Anthony Lang

Series: The Macat Library

Paperback: 98 pages

Publisher: Macat Library; 1 edition (July 22, 2017)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1912127881

ISBN-13: 978-1912127887

Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 0.6 x 19.8 cm

內容簡介

Hannah Arendt’s 1958 The Human Condition was an impassioned philosophical reconsideration of the goals of being human. In its arguments about the kind of lives we should lead and the political engagement we should strive for, Arendt’s interpretative skills come to the fore, in a brilliant display of what high-level interpretation can achieve for critical thinking. 

Good interpretative thinkers are characterised by their ability to clarify meanings, question accepted definitions and posit good, clear definitions that allow their other critical thinking skills to take arguments deeper and further than most. In many ways, The Human Condition is all about definitions. 

Arendt’s aim is to lay out an argument for political engagement and active participation in society as the highest goals of human life; and to this end she sets about defining a hierarchy of ways of living a “vita activa,” or active life. The book sets about distinguishing between our different activities under the categories of “labor”, “work”, and “action” – each of which Arendt carefully redefines as a different level of active engagement with the world. Following her clear and careful laying out of each word’s meaning, it becomes hard to deny her argument for the life of “action” as the highest human goal.

作者簡介

Dr Anthony Langis Head of the Schook of International Relations at the University of St Andrews.His work focuses on questions of agency, responsibility and punishment in political theory.

Dr Sahar Aurore Saeidniais a doctoral researcher at the Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux sociaux, of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (EGESS-IRIS).

Anthony Lang博士是聖安德魯斯大學國際關係學院校長。他的研究側重於政治理論中的代理責任和懲罰問題。

Sahar Aurore Saeidnia是巴黎Ecole des Hautes學院社會學研究所（EGESS-IRIS）的博士研究生。

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