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In the Human Condition, by Hannah Arendt, the fundamental qualities of human behavior are described and analyzed. These qualities are first expressed by discussing the different aspects of life for Athenian Greeks. Arendt describes the division between public and private life and how it should be applied in the modern American society as well. Technology and capitalism are blurring the lines of Arendt's civic ideal between the public and private realms of society.
Arendt refers to the three elements of the human condition as vita activa. The vita activa, is defined by, "human life in so far as it is actively engaged in doing something, is always rooted in a world of men and of manmade things which it never leaves or altogether transcends" (pg. 22).
The three fundamental human activities that make up the vita activa are as follows: "Labor", the biological functions which define life itself, "work" is the artificial function of human existence and is also defined by "worldliness"......

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