“It is, in fact, far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.”
The Human Condition (1958).
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The Human Condition
The Human Condition, first published in 1958, Hannah Arendt's account of how "human activities" should be and have been understood throughout Western history. Arendt is interested in the vita activa as contrasted with the vita contemplativa and concerned that the debate over the relative status of the two has blinded us to important insights about the vita activa and the way in which it has changed since ancient times. She distinguishes three sorts of activity and discusses how they have been affected by changes in Western history.
The Human Condition (1958), part 3, chapter 16.
