What is the human condition?

Question

Does it exist? What does it include?

Answer 1

The search for the meaning of life. Why are we here and what happens when we die?

Answer 2

The human condition encompasses the totality of the experience of being human and living human lives. 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 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.

Although the term[1] itself may have gained popular currency with The Human Condition, a film trilogy directed by Masaki Kobayashi,[citation needed] which examined these and related concepts, the quest to understand the human condition dates back to the first attempts by humans to understand themselves and their place in the universe.

Answer 3

The flaw with the human condition is that it itself is a flaw. The thought that humans have more of a purpose than any other animal (or object) is just a tribute to humans' inflated egos. The truth is that we don't matter to anyone but ourselves. We live like animals but our minds put on a very realistic display giving us the illusion of consciousness which is what makes people feel more important. We think we control what we do but in reality each of us is bound to his or her own path floating in the godless universe. What's going to happen is what's going to happen.

Answer 4

I agree with answer 2.

The human predicament is that we must accept an ultimate authority over us, i.e. God, if we are to have any possibility of having real purpose and meaning. Without God, we will forever be in search of some meaningless feelings of self worth.

The human condition is to deny the author of purpose while our human nature demands authentic purpose.

Answer 5

Suffering.

Answer 6

It's the condition you are in as you read this!

Answer 7

Humans????????????

Answer 8

Imperfection.

That means we are not as we should be.

Answer 9

answer to this question can be varied