The Democratic Pólis: the “Greek solution” to the Fragility of Action
Keywords:
democracy, Antiquity, action, freedomAbstract
We present an interpretation of the theory of political action developed by Hannah Arendt in her work The Human Condition. The capacity to act is analyzed from the point of view of its extreme fragility, something that is inherent in the human conditions of birth and plurality. We intend to demonstrate how, in order to overcome this fragility of action, pre-philosophical Greek Antiquity established the democratic experience of the polis. The foundation of the polis, far from being a mere mutation in ancient social organizations, is an authentic establishment of the dimension of the political, whose domain of experience is freedom.
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