2007-10-21 21:05:38 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
In response to a question i made my sentence on yahoo answers.
2007-10-21 21:17:29 · update #1
is a sterilized creature dead it can't reproduce?
2007-10-21 22:43:03 · update #2
what do you two mean by nothing
2007-10-21 23:00:49 · update #3
my liberty that belongs to me, im free to do whatever i want
2007-10-21 21:09:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Your point about the sterilized animal leads me to believe you are aware that science has 7 or 8 or so criteria for life, like "aspiriation," reproduction, and the ridding of its own poisons, such as a tree ridding itself of oxygen while intaking carbon dioxide. So that is scientific criteria. A sterilized animal had the ability to reproduce, to at birth it fit the description. A mule is born sterile, but it is an anomoly, and we all know that rules have exceptions--after all, the platypus is a mammal but it lays eggs and then acts like a marsupial.
But as for the life of man, it is not enough to simply exists in an "eternal present," as Loren Eisely calls it. Man must find a purpose. Some find God's "will," others understand Aristotle's Man qua Man to be the standard. I agree with Aristotle. But the life of a Man must be one of purpose, or it is nothing more than mere "existence."
2007-10-22 15:25:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This may not be what you are looking for at all, but life to me means that something contains RNA/DNA, reproduces with a similar creature or asexually, and converts outside energy for it's own use.
No one else said this but I think it is a very important definition because without the web of various forms of life, none of us would exist. The coral reefs, the bacteria, the mosquitoes -- they are all essential. They are sources of beauty, contemplation, evolution.
I'm sure I missed some of the necessary biological conditions for something to be called "life" but I hope you get my point.
2007-10-22 05:38:03 · answer #3 · answered by Richie Paine 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
For me personally life means existing, being alive, breathing, having a body and mind, both working and conscious.
The word life is a noun;
1. the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
2007-10-22 15:03:04 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A life means absolutely nothing without the eco system within which it lives.
2007-10-23 14:54:40 · answer #5 · answered by jingles 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to quote something said else where -
life has no meaning
and it has no meaning that it has no meaning
that gives you the freedom to make up the meaning you want it to have.
apparently a zen persepctive
I know the same thing but said "life has the meaning I give it"
which is my personal. But the zen one seems a little more artful.
2007-10-22 21:41:38 · answer #6 · answered by Andy C 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is the process which living organisms have cells which are still functioning and eat, breath, reproduce,etc. This is my very own scientific point of view.
2007-10-22 04:40:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
About 6 years, 3 years with parole, 1.5 years with a tag, and nothing because you get let out early because the prisons are all full.
Oh, then they pay you for the inconvenience.
So, life means about £260.
Welcome to our world.
2007-10-22 04:11:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nothingness.
2007-10-22 05:45:37 · answer #9 · answered by los 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus Christ.
John 14:6 Jesus said He is the life, truth, and the way.
Philippians 1:21 To live is Christ, to die is gain.
Read it, obey it
2007-10-22 04:16:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Passion for Fashion
2007-10-22 04:09:33 · answer #11 · answered by Shampain 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋