ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book suggests that there is a vision of the good life' in Hannah Arendt's work, and it turns out to be a vision of the good society', which is therefore bound up with her understanding of the triad of human activities'. A good society is one where these basic human capacities remain within the reach of every human being. This does not mean that any particular individual life needs to partake of each, or that society' could be ordered in accordance with such a general principle. But it does imply a commitment to maintaining the mutual constitution of the three spheres within which these activities can remain meaningful to actors. This modifies, perhaps, Arendt's conception of freedom. For the freedom instantiated in the sphere of action depends on the ongoing existence of the spheres of fabrication of labour for its meaning.
