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n. {{context|usually|preceded by (term the English)|lang=en}} The characteristics, key events, and situations which compose the essentials of human existence, such as birth, growth, emotionality, aspiration, conflict, and mortality.
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The human condition is "the characteristics, key events, and situations which compose the essentials of human existence, such as birth, growth, emotionality, aspiration, conflict, and mortality." This is a very broad topic which has been and continues to be pondered and analyzed from many perspectives, including those of religion, philosophy, history, art, literature, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and biology.
As a literary term, "the human condition" is typically used in the context of ambiguous subjects such as the meaning of life or moral concerns.
The human condition refers to the experience of existence and life as humans.
The Human Condition may also refer to:
- La Condition humaine (English title: Man's Fate), a 1933 novel by André Malraux
- The Human Condition (film series), a film trilogy directed by Masaki Kobayashi
- The Human Condition (Saga album), 2009
- The Human Condition (Man Must Die album), 2007
- The Human Condition (Jon Bellion album), 2016
- The Human Condition (book), a 1958 book by political theorist Hannah Arendt
- The Human Condition (novel), a 1958 6-part Japanese novel by Junpei Gomikawa
- The Human Condition (painting),a 1933 painting by surrealist painter René Magritte
- The Human Condition (band), short-lived band featuring electric bassist Jah Wobble
- Human Conditions, music album by Richard Ashcroft
- Human Condition Records, a record label
- Exhibit B: The Human Condition, a 2010 album by Exodus
- The Human Condition (TV series), Korean TV program
Usage examples of "human condition".
In this remarkably readable book he shows how history and biology can enrich one another to produce a deeper understanding of the human condition.
It seemed to him, as he walked down the stony path to where he'd locked his bicycle to a rack, that everyone in the world was crazy, that craziness was synonymous with the human condition.
This was the degradation of the human condition, the theft of man’.
Although I do not, with some enthusiasts, believe that the human condition will ever advance to such a state of perfection as that there shall no longer be pain or vice in the world, yet I believe it susceptible of much improvement, and most of all, in matters of government and religion.
It's part of my ongoing attempt to understand the human condition.
Leland believed that pain-physical, mental, emotional-was the core of the human condition, that survival and sanity depended upon embracing pain rather than resisting it or dreaming of escape.
It was a pure, evocative, and poignant observation of nature, which on analysis would surely prove to have numerous metaphorical meanings pertinent to the human condition.