ABSTRACT
From that it is reasonable to assume that by ‘public life’, we mean something particular at the core of our existence, namely that of being together, a collective will and collective conscience, the opposite of being private and clearly distinct from that other vital aspect of our existence. As long ago as the polis, the city-state of ancient Greece, this distinction was important, the private household and the public ‘civitas’, the clarification of the relationship between private matters and civic responsibility.
