As possíveis relações entre os conceitos Vita activa e Totalitarismo em Hannah Arendt

Abstract

From The Human Condition (2017), Hannah Arendt determines that vita activa designates three fundamental human activities, they are: labor, manufacturing and action. For Arendt, it is necessary to make the due distinction between Labor and Manufacturing, the first concerns the work of our body, is the biological process of the human body; while Manufacturing represents by "the work of our hands" what man produces. On the other, action is an activity that happens in the space between men (public space) and action is an essentially political activity. Each of them expresses the reason for being fundamental to the human condition: life, worldliness and plurality respectively. Labor is fundamental for the maintenance of life, manufacturing is fundamental to grant the artifice for man to shelter in the world and action, in turn, is fundamental for political life. Arendt in his work Origins of Totalitarianism (2012), especially part III of this work, assures this system as a way of breaking the active vita concept and politics, in order to keep the individual isolated and thus make him atomized and dehumanized. The political scenario loses the character of common space, dialogue, argumentation and persuasion, using the methodology that consists in the propagation of terror, fear and violence. The consequences of this system permeate the political life of the individual to his private life because by annihilating man's contact with reality and the plurality of ideas creates the mass man, isolated from public affairs and himself, from dialogue with himself, that is, from his personal morality, from his questioning. This last conclusion is evidenced from the works The Life of the Mind (2000) and The Dignity of Political (1993), since there is a relationship between the activities of the spirit and political action, freedom and spontaneity. All of them determine the plurality of the action.