human condition
noun/hjʉwmənkənˈdɪʃən/
Definitions
What it means to be human
What it means to be human; the experiences, characteristics, and limitations of life shared by all humans, as opposed to other lifeforms.
- Neither symboliste nor decadent, he was a pessimist in so far as that character applies to a man who looks at the worst contingencies as well as the best in the human condition.
- Youth dies. Life hurts. Love warms. Understanding heals. The wounds and balms of the human condition are so commonplace that men eventually experience them without noticing.
- Christian theology traditionally sees three elements of the human condition that are in need of transformation: sin (estrangement from God), evil (estrangement among humans), and death (mortality, and our estrangement from nature).
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for human condition. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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