Hannah the human condition6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() However it is the third type of activity –action (vita activa) which promises to shine a different light on both the way organisations make use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT)and the role current research methods play in developing our understanding of the potential value to be obtained by organisations from this technology. It is through work that man (homo faber) transforms raw materials into tools and creates the human world we live in. Work includes all those activities by which physical products are produced. Labor refers to the actions required to meet the unceasing need to satisfy our bodily needs. ![]() She considers that this way of categorising human actions is important to understanding the way that modern life has developed and seeks to describe each one as fully as possible. In her view the western intellectual tradition hasfailed to take proper account of the distinctions between the three activities. She distinguishes three forms of activity fundamental to our lives –labor, work and action. In ‘The Human Condition’ (1958) Hannah Arendt presents a picture of what it is to be human based on the activities that we humans undertake. ![]()
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