Human condition

Human kind was created with the unique gift of emotion. Unlike any other animal on Earth, humans were given the capability to feel emotions ranging from excruciating pain to heart bursting joy. This capability gives humans a meaning, it sets human kind apart from all other creatures on the planet. However, with this puzzling capability came a discussion that has been evaluated through the ages. What is it to be human? Being human involves the pain and the love of life but that is not all that…

“He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool,"-Albert Camus. The Human Condition represents the ideas, problems, and abilities that people have. People can be capable of great love; but also are capable of hate, torture, rape, and war. The main concern is if humans are innately good or bad. Are humans both good and bad, born with one or the other, or taught to be good or bad? In the fiction dystopian novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding,…

As human creatures with a complex nature, we sometimes experience odd feelings about the world and the reality we live in. We are skeptic about our surroundings and start questioning our existence wondering if all we know is a lie. Then, after such moments of reflection we come back to our senses and continue our daily errands without worrying too much about our previous thoughts. René Magritte is surrealist artist that makes us return to such odd feelings through his paintings, which are…

the Information Age, people have the knowledge of the universe right at the fingertips. People have access to more information than can be imagined and now people can form more informed opinions about any subject imaginable. Consequently, the human condition has changed throughout history in regards to open mindedness of gender, race, and environment. Throughout history, the main genders have always been male and female. When a baby is born the first questions asked is “Is it a boy or girl?”…

Arendt addresses the question of language in The Human Condition: a 1958 work that, through its insightful social and political commentaries, “has proved both timeless and perpetually timely.” “The web of human relationships,” starts Arendt, “is sustained by communicative interaction.” She continues, “In acting and speaking, men show who they are, reveal actively their unique personal identities and thus make their appearance in the human world.” Accordingly, we can view language as a…

In The Human Condition, philosopher and political thinker Hannah Arendt argues that the vita activa, or “active life,” is the fundamental condition of human existence. The human condition as described by Hannah Arendt is described into three fundamental activities. These are called Labor, Work and Action. To define action one must first understand what ‘labor’ is and what ‘work’ is and how these two are different from each other. Labor is that activity which corresponds to the biological…

How do you birthduring your life even after you are brought into this world? The human condition, defined as the the characteristics which compose the essentials of the human existence. All humans experience (birth, growth, emotionality, aspiration, conflict, mortality) characteristics that people in this world feel that you need to be a moral human being. Most people aren’t aware that they’re living the human condition, but that doesn’t mean that they won’t use these characteristics during…

1. The conflicting conditions of human life A hero “What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?” (Matthew 16:26 NIV) Every story has a main character. The troubles the main character goes through constitute the plot of the story. He, the hero, will eventually solve the conflict the story centers upon. The main character of many of Jesus’ teachings is the human soul. The existence of the immortal soul is…

What is the Human Condition? Why is it such a trap for us? The Human Condition is a psychological, emotional, social, moral, active condition. We have feelings and thoughts and God created us as so. However, we have become so slipped up in sin and evil things that anything good seems to have gone right out the window. "So yes, what exactly is the human condition? As I summarised earlier, the human condition arises from the existence of so-called ‘good and evil’ in our make-up. We humans are…

The human condition is to question “what is happening to me and why?” The human condition is human’s eternal separation from God as a result of their sinful disobedience. Human’s first temptation to sin was because of their desire to be like God and acquire the knowledge of God. Satan tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden and told her that if she would eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil she would become like God. The only forbidden tree in the entire garden was…