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This 10 page paper examines Hannah Arendt's work The Human Condition. Much attention is paid to social stratification. Ideas regarding Marxism and liberty are discussed. The paper concurs with one of Arendt's points about the relationships between politics and the economy. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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and this unnecessarily limits the meaning of politics and the public space. That Arendts point is criticized is not surprising. There is a movement of sorts that seeks to
preserve the status quo and render economic categories sacrosanct. Of course, critics of class conflict ideas are usually financially well off themselves. They can sit in a comfortable chair and
pontificate while those at the bottom strata struggle to survive. They do not have the luxury of having the same freedoms to even think about ideology. All that they know
is what they need to know to survive in the world. There are many positions that would either negate or support Arendts point of view. It seems that her primary
point, as noted above by a student, is essentially that because there is social stratification, then politics is tainted. The people cannot vote for what they truly want. They must
vote with their pocketbooks for survival. Arendt (1998) in her book separates how people embrace both public and private life and just what that difference is. Much of her writing
goes to the idea that politics has been reduced to economics. Arendt does not say this without support. She goes through history and points out that this was not always
the case. Indeed, politics had been separate from economics at one point. Interestingly, many people see politics and economics today as inextricable and do not give the morality of that
a second thought. Yet, society has some laws that go to ethics. One cannot for example sell a kidney. At the same time, little consideration is given to the ethics
of poverty. In looking at Arendt and her critics, what can be said about the world as it exists and the world that is painted by the author? Can the
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