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  1. 27 de jul. de 2006 · 4.2 The Vita Activa: Labor, Work and Action. Arendt analyzes the vita activa via three categories which correspond to the three fundamental activities of our being-in-the-world: labor, work, and action.

  2. Arendt introduces the term vita activa (active life) by distinguishing it from vita contemplativa (contemplative life). Ancient philosophers insisted upon the superiority of the vita contemplativa, for which the vita activa merely provided necessities.

    • Hannah Arendt
    • United States
    • 1958
    • 1958
  3. With the term vita activa, I propose to designate three fundamental human activities: labor, work, and action. They are fundamental because each corresponds to one of the basic...

  4. Arendt argues that the Western philosophical tradition has devalued the world of human action which attends to appearances (the vita activa), subordinating it to the life of contemplation which concerns itself with essences and the eternal (the vita contemplativa).

  5. The Human Condition, published in 1958, was a wide-ranging and systematic treatment of what Arendt called the vita activa (Latin: “active life”). She defended the classical ideals of work, citizenship, and political action against what she considered a debased obsession with mere welfare.

  6. The former are concerned with ‘doing’ and entail ‘active engagement’ with the world; the latter are concerned with ‘understanding’ the world. 1 Arendt uses the terms vita activa and vita contemplativa to describe the ways of life devoted respectively to the pursuits of the two types of activities.

  7. writers expressed by the terms vita activa and vit a contemplativa. Thus it is a step toward understanding how the modern discrepancy of terminology arose, and toward finding an antidote for the confusion which it engenders. The slowly changing meaning of the two terms is traced in Plato, Aristotle, Philo,