Hannah Arendt’s definition of the common world

“The common world is what we enter when we are born and what we leave behind when we die. It transcends our lifespan into past and future alike ; it was there before we came and will outlast our brief sojourn in it . It is what we have in common not only with those who live with us, but also with those who were here before and with those who will come after us. … Without this transcendence into a potential earthly immortality, no politics, strictly speaking, no common world and no public realm, is possible.