human condition

English

Noun

human condition

(usually preceded by the) What it means to be human; the experiences, characteristics, and limitations of life shared by all humans, as opposed to other lifeforms.
- 1894, Thomas Hardy, "An Imaginative Woman":
  Neither symboliste nor decadent, he was a pessimist in so far as that character applies to a man who looks at the worst contingencies as well as the best in the human condition.
- 1970, "Alive and Well," Time, 18 May:
  Youth dies. Life hurts. Love warms. Understanding heals. The wounds and balms of the human condition are so commonplace that men eventually experience them without noticing.
- 2006, S. Mark Heim, Saved from Sacrifice‎, →ISBN, page 8:
  Christian theology traditionally sees three elements of the human condition that are in need of transformation: sin (estrangement from God), evil (estrangement among humans), and death (mortality, and our estrangement from nature).

Translations

characteristics, key events and situations which compose the essentials of human experience

Chinese:
Mandarin: 人類條件, 人类条件 (rénlèi tiáojiàn), 人性 (zh) (rénxìng)
Danish: conditio humana

Finnish: ihmisyys (fi)
Russian: человече́ская ситуа́ция m (čelovečéskaja situácija), челове́ческое усло́вие n (čelovéčeskoje uslóvije)
Spanish: please add this translation if you can

References

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