Definition Of The Human Condition

Definition of the Human Condition

While the universally accepted ideals are to be cooperative, loving and selfless humans are variously competitive, aggressive and selfish.

Humans are capable of immense love and sensitivity, but we have also been capable of greed, hatred, brutality, rape, murder and war.

The subconscious sense of guilt and agony of being unable to explain this contradictory capacity has been the burden of human life, the human condition.

Conventional references to the human condition

why we are the way we are
what it is to be human
the riddle of life
our human predicament
the dark side of our nature
our troubled human state and nature
our corrupted or ‘fallen’ state

our capacity for good and evil
our contradictory nature
our state of human frailty
our burden of guilt or sin
the root of human conflict
the meaning of humans and their place in the world

For the best description of the human condition we strongly recommend you watch Parts 1 and 2 of the Video - The World Transformation Movement Introductory Video and

Read Section 3 of the Book - FREEDOM: The Liberation & Transformation of The Human Race.

Also see Section 2 of the Book – The Great Exodus: From the horror and darkness of the human condition.