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Philosopher as zoon antipolitikon. The Relationship between Philosophy and Politics in Antiquity according to Hannah Arendt

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2010

Abstract

The article expounds the main theses about the relationship between politics a philosophy in Ancient Greece set forth in Hannah Arendt’s book Vita activa. The author focuses on the consequences which had the discovery of the ideal of theoretical life for the understanding of politics and on the philosophical efforts to eliminate the political action by reducing it to other kinds of human activities such as work or labor.