The Human Condition
The city, a place where people could live the “good life”, not only because it was the only place that enforced laws and justice, but also because without it people cannot possibly be good people. The city allowed for people to be good and virtuous, so by living in this way, it made for a virtuous life, which is in fact living the “good life”. Living in the countryside is not easy, everyone seems to be stuck in the same redundant dilemma, the struggle of moving forward. Opportunities are very limited and hard to come by. When an opportunity does arise, more often than not it is not ideal. The lack of opportunity along with a great many other reasons must be why so many people that grow up in the country choose to move to the city as soon as
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One of those so called “human activities” is how The Public and Private Realm, have been used by humans throughout history. The rise of city-state was important because it meant that for the first time “that man received, besides his private life a sort of second life, his bios politikos” (24). With the rise of the public realm, a man could thrive and experience the “good life”. To participate in the public realm, however, there were a couple of requirements in order to partake in the newly found “good life” of the city-state. First, one's private life had to be in order, a man must have “mastered the necessities of sheer life, by being freed from labor and work, and by overcoming the innate urge of all living creatures for their own survival, it was no longer bound to the biological life process” (37). Secondly, they must own a house, because if a man did not own a house they “could not participate in the affairs of the world because he had no location in it which was properly his own” (29-30). One these basic requirements were met, then the man could attempt to participate in the public realm. The reason that the public realm was so important is because it was considered by Arendt as “the sphere of freedom” (30). It was the only place where a man could “distinguish himself from all others, to show through unique deeds or achievements that he was the best of all” (41). In addition it was the only place where men could really be themselves and prove how valuable and unique they were to rest of the public realm. Without the city-state, the public realm never could have become as popular as it did because it was the only place that humans could reach their full potential (so long as they were elite males). It gave them a
One of those so called “human activities” is how The Public and Private Realm, have been used by humans throughout history. The rise of city-state was important because it meant that for the first time “that man received, besides his private life a sort of second life, his bios politikos” (24). With the rise of the public realm, a man could thrive and experience the “good life”. To participate in the public realm, however, there were a couple of requirements in order to partake in the newly found “good life” of the city-state. First, one's private life had to be in order, a man must have “mastered the necessities of sheer life, by being freed from labor and work, and by overcoming the innate urge of all living creatures for their own survival, it was no longer bound to the biological life process” (37). Secondly, they must own a house, because if a man did not own a house they “could not participate in the affairs of the world because he had no location in it which was properly his own” (29-30). One these basic requirements were met, then the man could attempt to participate in the public realm. The reason that the public realm was so important is because it was considered by Arendt as “the sphere of freedom” (30). It was the only place where a man could “distinguish himself from all others, to show through unique deeds or achievements that he was the best of all” (41). In addition it was the only place where men could really be themselves and prove how valuable and unique they were to rest of the public realm. Without the city-state, the public realm never could have become as popular as it did because it was the only place that humans could reach their full potential (so long as they were elite males). It gave them a