![]() In short, we are no longer at home in the world, and are thereby left struggling to find meaning in it. This quote refers to the sacrifice of the world and the worldliness of human beings brought about by the aftereffects of the three great events mentioned above. ![]() The common thread in these seemingly disparate historical developments is what Arendt calls “world alienation the hallmark of the modern age” (254). She will focus chiefly on the third point in Part 6. ![]() For Arendt, these pre-modern events “are still happening in an unbroken continuity” (248) with our modern age. She defended the classical ideals of work, citizenship, and political action against what she considered a debased obsession with mere welfare. These are: first, the “discovery” of America and the consequent exploration and mapping of the entire earth second, the Protestant Reformation, which ended feudal property relations in Europe and created the conditions for capitalist production and wealth and third, the invention of the telescope and the ability to consider the earth from the perspective of the universe. The Human Condition, published in 1958, was a wide-ranging and systematic treatment of what Arendt called the vita activa (Latin: active life). The second chapter in Hannah Arendts work The Human Condition, titled The Public and the Private Realm, seeks to differentiate and assess the elements of the. ![]() Arendt begins by outlining three major events of the pre-modern era that have continued to shape and determine our present. ![]()
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