The human condition 18 Articles

by Steven Garrett

A crystalline photograph appears on the screen. A Space Shuttle flight: the poignant blue sphere of our Earth; framed by the Shuttle's open bay doors and the tethered form of a space-walking Astronaut. Our eyes narrow and ...read more

by Sofia SanPasquale

The human condition is much easier to understand than most of the philosophical mumbo-jumbo out there will have you believe. From the beginning of humanity, we have had to deal with our intelligent capacities being juxtapo...read more

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by Susan Kleinhans

The human condition seems less human as the centuries casually roll by. Humans eagerly embrace invincible armor fortified by scientific research. Yet our educational systems teach to outdated, biased tests and not the impo...read more

by Michael Pullum

Everyone learns lessons in their life. People become famous for their understandings of these lessons. My lesson is this: nothing is forever. Nothing lasts as long as you want, and always ends longer than you think. Ta...read more

by Jae Baeli

Being Fully Human Theodore Roosevelt once said: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the m...read more

by Patrick Lively

So here it is; My first ever article. It took me a long time to jump on the bandwagon of self important pontification and self branding, but here I am all the same. I've pondered trying my hand at it for quite awhile, but ...read more

by johalin

You cannot understand the human condition, torn as it is between gender conflict, without understanding psychology and physiology, and you can't understand psychology without physiology or physiology without psychology, si...read more

by Francisco Fernandez

One soul is enough to grieve over. This statement refers principally to death, the great tragedy of human life. The loss of one's own life grieves one enough, but the loss of a spouse adds pain upon pain, and the loss of a...read more

by Danette M. Scott

The human condition. You do not need to be an expert in the field of social sciences to have an understanding of the human condition. What is required to understand the human condition is concern, compassion and empathy fo...read more

by Michael Capalongo

. And there beyond a fierce and distant rumble, a water fall far upstream, and there within sight that coveted and soaring truth. It lies over the canyon that vague blur yet noticeably colorful emitting an array of lightni...read more

by Jobie Weetaluktuk

The human condition is a bit like the ant condition. The human condition is compelled to act and act. To do and do. To think and think. To talk and discuss. The human condition is plagued by action, reflection, and in...read more

by Rick Rodriguez

What does it mean to be human? Are we just animals destined to share the same fate as cockroach splattered across the concrete by a shoe? As we inch our way closer to our inevitable deaths we humans struggle to answer or h...read more

by Gabriel Bartlett

It is my belief that there are 2 basic planes of existence that all mankind can ultimately agree exist. The tangible plane: The physical realm. any thing that can be perceived tangibly. EXE rocks, the sun, birds, people...read more

by J. McCoy

.Bringing it back down to Earth With our minds now beginning to open to the unlimited possibilities of the cosmos, it's time to start to think about the physical world around us. The trees, the air, the rocks...read more

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by Peter Pogany

Early in my French studies I decided to read without using a dictionary. I understood enough to make sense of news and easy fiction, and doing away with the struggle of looking up every second underlined word made me feel ...read more

by Nigel Andrew Than

Looking down at the old mercury thermometer, I shake my head in confusion. I am supposed to be immune; I am a philosopher. I am supposed to possess within my arsenal of ideas the one and only antidote. How could th...read more