Arendt refers to those who through circumstance or even choice, are engaged only in labour as 'animal laborans', as it is such a state that human beings are closest to the animal world.

On the latter point a comparison is made with the slaves of the Hellenic world not because of the harshness of the work, but rather because it was dedicated to the production of necessities, and those which would be consumed with immediacy. Labour is defined as the biological process of the human body, and life-sustaining activities, noted for its remorseless repetition. For her, life was to be lived with others in the practical tasks of common activity i.e., praxis.

Famously Arendt refused to describe herself as a philosopher precisely because of the historical attachment of that discipline to contemplativa Arendt (to use the Platonic philosophical language which she targets) attended to the world temporary 'appearances', rather than the world of eternal 'forms'. The vita activa, or active life, is necessarily distinguished by what has been more popular in the western philosophical tradition which concentrated on vita contemplativa (contemplative life). The Human Condition, reviewed here in summary form, emphasised the vita activa and distinguished between three fundamental activity labor, work and action, distinguishing the 'human condition' from 'human nature', the latter existing within human beings, the former between. Both anarchistic in her love of political pluralism, political involvement, and direct democracy she also emphasised the fundamental roles of government in establishing lasting institutions and laws as the free agreements of behaviour between members of the polis. Arendt is difficult to position in a traditional political sense she is a supporter of constitutionalism and the rule of law, yet she also disparaged representative democracy in favour of high levels of deliberative participatory democracy and the revolutionary spirit. Two of her major works include The Origins of Totalitarianism, a sociological study of the Stalinist terror and Nazi genocide, and On Revolution, which combined political science with history, both highly important for an isocratic perspective. Hannah Arendt is considered one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century and, it must be stated, a profoundly influential contributor to the social and political theory of the Isocracy network.

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