Hannah Arendt was a woman in a man's profession, a woman who always did what she wanted to do, a woman who never cared whether it was or not a man's job. Hailing from the 20th century, Arendt is relatively modern compared to the philosophers and political theorists we have studied throughout this semester. Arendt was born in Linden (now Hanover) and grew up in Königsberg and Berlin as the daughter of an engineer. As a child, neither politics nor history interested him. She grew up in a Jewish family in pre-war Germany. However, Arendt had no idea that she was Jewish. Her parents, from the social democratic movement, were not religious, and although her grandfather was president of the liberal Jewish community, the word Jewish never came up when she was a child. She first discovered it through anti-Semitic remarks from children on the street. That's what enlightened her, she knew that she looked Jewish and that her family home was different from the others. She was actually under direct orders from her mother that if any anti-Semitic remarks were made by just one teacher in the classroom, she was to get up, go home and report it immediately. Arendt studied in Marburg, Heidelberg, and Freiburg with professors Heidegger, Bultmann, and Jaspers. She majored in philosophy and minored in theology and Greek. According to Arendt, from the age of 14, when she read Kant, she always knew she would study philosophy. “Either I study philosophy or I drown”; she needed to understand. However, she was not a philosopher, but rather a political theorist. The distinction will be made later in this reading. Arendt's interest in politics was the main factor that ended her indifference.... middle of paper ....... This creates a world of sustainability. In this world, humans are the builders of "walls" that separate the human world from the natural world and allow the construction of institutions and the adoption of laws that provide space for human life to flourish. The differences between work and work are that work deals with nature and biology, while work violates this nature and instead shapes it in order to satisfy the needs of human life. Work is also governed by a sovereign and allows a certain freedom because it concerns human life and human intentions, whereas work is governed by nature and necessity. Finally, work is a relatively public affair, because it concerns human life as a whole (although work is not the primary activity corresponding to politics); However, work meets the vital needs of individuals and is therefore a more private affair..