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Author: Sir FrederickSir Frederick Date: Aug 8, 2008 19:57
The Human Condition :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_condition
The human condition encompasses all of the experience of being human. As mortal
entities, there are a series of biologically determined events that are common
to most human lives, and some that are inevitable for all. The ongoing way in
which humans react to or cope with these events is the human condition. However,
understanding the precise nature and scope of what is meant by the human
condition is itself a philosophical problem.
The term is also used in a metaphysical sense, to describe the joy, terror,
humor and other feelings or emotions associated with being and existence.
Humans, to an apparently superlative degree amongst...
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Author: turtoniturtoni Date: Aug 8, 2008 20:58
On Aug 8, 10:57 pm, Sir Frederick fuzzysys.com> wrote:> The Human Condition : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_condition
> The human condition encompasses all of the experience of being human. As mortal
> entities, there are a series of biologically determined events that are common
> to most human lives, and some that are inevitable for all. The ongoing way in
> which humans react to or cope with these events is the human condition. However,
> understanding the precise nature and scope of what is meant by the human
> condition is itself a philosophical problem.
>
> The term is also used in a metaphysical sense, to describe the joy, terror,
> humor and other feelings or emotions associated with being and existence.
> Humans, to an apparently superlative degree amongst all living things, are aware
> of the passage of time, can remember the past and imagine the future, and are
> intimately aware of their own mortality. Only human beings are known to ask
> themselves questions relating to the purpose of life beyond the base need for
> survival, or the nature of existence beyond that which is empirically apparent:
> What is the meaning of existence? Why was I born? Why am I here? Where will I go
> when I die? The human struggle to find answers to these questions — and the very
> fact that we can conceive them and ask them — is what defines the human
> condition in this sense of the term. ...
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Author: ImmortalistImmortalist Date: Aug 8, 2008 21:59
On Aug 8, 7:57 pm, Sir Frederick fuzzysys.com> wrote:> The Human Condition : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_condition
> The human condition encompasses all of the experience of being human. As mortal
> entities, there are a series of biologically determined events that are common
> to most human lives, and some that are inevitable for all. The ongoing way in
> which humans react to or cope with these events is the human condition. However,
> understanding the precise nature and scope of what is meant by the human
> condition is itself a philosophical problem.
>
> The term is also used in a metaphysical sense, to describe the joy, terror,
> humor and other feelings or emotions associated with being and existence.
> Humans, to an apparently superlative degree amongst all living things, are aware
> of the passage of time, can remember the past and imagine the future, and are
> intimately aware of their own mortality. Only human beings are known to ask
> themselves questions relating to the purpose of life beyond the base need for
> survival, or the nature of existence beyond that which is empirically apparent:
> What is the meaning of existence? Why was I born? Why am I here? Where will I go
> when I die? The human struggle to find answers to these questions — and the very
> fact that we can conceive them and ask them — is what defines the human
> condition in this sense of the term. ...
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Author: ImmortalistImmortalist Date: Aug 8, 2008 22:08
On Aug 8, 8:58 pm, turtoni fastmail.net> wrote:> On Aug 8, 10:57 pm, Sir Frederick fuzzysys.com> wrote:
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Author: ImmortalistImmortalist Date: Aug 8, 2008 22:18
On Aug 8, 10:08 pm, Immortalist yahoo.com> wrote:> On Aug 8, 8:58 pm, turtoni fastmail.net> wrote:
>>> On Aug 8, 10:57 pm, Sir Frederick fuzzysys.com> wrote:>
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Author: ImmortalistImmortalist Date: Aug 8, 2008 22:31
On Aug 8, 10:18 pm, Immortalist yahoo.com> wrote:> On Aug 8, 10:08 pm, Immortalist yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> On Aug 8, 8:58 pm, turtoni fastmail.net> wrote:>
>>> On Aug 8, 10:57 pm, Sir Frederick fuzzysys.com> wrote:>
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Author: ImmortalistImmortalist Date: Aug 8, 2008 22:53
On Aug 8, 10:31 pm, Immortalist yahoo.com> wrote:> On Aug 8, 10:18 pm, Immortalist yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>> On Aug 8, 10:08 pm, Immortalist yahoo.com> wrote:>
>>> On Aug 8, 8:58 pm, turtoni fastmail.net> wrote:>
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Author: ZerkonXZerkonX Date: Aug 9, 2008 05:09
On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:57:59 -0700, Sir Frederick wrote:
> The human condition encompasses all of the experience of being human
It is not, however, dependent only on conscious experience, if a more
accurate and, I think, beneficial use of the concept of 'condition' is
used.
It may be the difference between - "In what condition do humans find
themselves" and "The condition in which humans exist". The first is
defined by what is known about condition, the second is centered on the
condition itself, known, yet to be known and never to be known.
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Author: turtoniturtoni Date: Aug 9, 2008 21:18
Pigs
"Old Major is the inspiration which fuels the Revolution and the book.
According to one interpretation, he could be based upon both Karl Marx
and Vladimir Lenin. As a socialist, George Orwell may have...
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