Arendt's Interpretation Of Marx's Concept Of Labor And Its Results

Hannah·Arendt is one of the most unique and creative political philosophers. Her view on western political philosophy tradition and modern western political problems developed a school of her own, and her interpretation of Marxism philosophy also received special attention. Hannah·Arendt gave labor, work and action, which were familiar to people, a totally new definition separately in People Condition, and declared that these activities were three fundamentals to human, which corresponded to a universal and basic condition separately. Arendt analyzed people condition and put forward diverse opinions from Marx on the issue of labor in her book. From Hannah·Arendt's point of view, labor was human life itself, and was the condition of human life. It controlled the whole course of human life and ensured the continuation of human. Basically, labor was a necessity to human life. Labor was only the course of maintaining the physical (or animal) side of human, and it only focused on the necessities themselves which were necessary to maintain human life. It focused on nothing beyond these, so it was private domain to the core, having nothing to do with the outside world. However, in Marx's opinion, labor created man. So Marx elevated labor to a position of supremacy. Labor was the source of all productive forces and true expression of human nature, and also the foundation leading to the realm of freedom. The labor issue is an important practical problem in academic circled contemporarily, and also a basic theoretic issue of human development.