The human condition

The book "The Human Condition" seeks to explore the less fragile but enduring characteristics of that condition despite the changes of the modern era; therefore, Hannah Arendt works on researching the condition of a non-Kleinian existence, that is, a existence in which humans live in a system characterized by democracy. And then the philosopher contemplates the concepts of labor, work, and action in order to study the human world as a world of practice that a person can live freely. And Arendt may appear as a critic of modernity, that is, a critic of the modern confusion between the realm of labor and the realm of work, and of turning effect into action, because humans have turned the products of lasting effects into things that are consumed and exhausted. But the philosopher reveals how the confusion between labor and work is in fact inherited from Western political thought, and therefore one of the most important goals of the perspective presented in this book is to critique the tradition of Western political philosophy from Plato to Heidegger, passing through Marx. As a result, the opinion considers the author conservative and elitist because she considers the apparent Greek political experience as an essential experience that needs scrutiny and specification, if not mistaken: it cannot be easily considered that Hannah Arendt is a new Aristotle, nor categorizing her among those nostalgic for the Greek experience, except in terms of exploring the theoretical lesson that appeared within their experience; meaning that the "human" (i.e., descriptive) condition is only manifested as a "human" (i.e., normative) condition through "action," with the caveat that this activity is the most fragile, least enduring, and most susceptible to disappearance among the three human activities that constitute the practical life system.