WORKERS TAROT

In her concept of vita activa Arendt proposes the trio labor, work and action. Labor is related to the maintenance of our biological needs, produced in neverending cycles. When we do labor we become animal laborans. In contrast, work aims at producing something durable, such as a tool, or a work of art, the idea of "building and maintaining a world fit for human use". Through work, we become homo faber. Action is the type of activity through which we act out in the world, becoming unique individuals in public, through speech and political action, "to actualize our capacity for freedom."