Active Life

  1. Action versus Contemplation

    Book The description for this book is as follows: "'All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone,' Blaise...

  2. Aristotle and Aquinas on the Active and Contemplative Life

    Video In this video, Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., President of the University of Notre Dame, and Dr. Meghan Sullivan (Rev. John...

  3. Blaschko on the Active vs Contemplative Work Life

    Video In this video, Paul Blaschko looks at how thinking about our work lives in terms of the "active vs. contemplative" debate...

  4. The Human Condition

    Book The description for this book is as follows: "A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant...

  5. Vita Activa and the Human Condition (Chapter 1)

    Philosophical Text In the first chapter of her book The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt describes the "Vita Activa," or the active life...

  6. Vita activa, the Spirit of Hannah Arendt (Trailer)

    Video In this video, the IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) provides a trailer for a documentary presented at IDFA 2015...