A proposal for the articulation of labor, work and action in Hannah Arendt

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.6018/daimon.543241
Keywords: vita activa, vita passiva, care, friendship, love, interdependence

Abstract

In The Human Condition, Arendt distinguished amongst labor, work and action. The relationship between these activities is usually hierarchically interpreted, prioritising action because of its inherent humanity. Nevertheless, the triad is closer to interdependence and reciprocity. Human activities articulate complexly in the form of two dyads: work and action approach when the first refers to art; labor and work oppose themselves radically. Anyhow, it is not labor which is inferior or less human per se, it is animal laborans’ experience when dispossessed of its capacity to act.

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01-05-2025
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Palacios Morales, A. (2025). A proposal for the articulation of labor, work and action in Hannah Arendt. Daimon Revista Internacional De Filosofia, (95), 145–159. https://doi.org/10.6018/daimon.543241
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