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The term is also used in a [[metaphysics|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 [[death|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 [[empirical knowledge|empirically]] apparent: What is the [[Meaning of life|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.
The term is also used in a [[metaphysics|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 [[death|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 [[empirical knowledge|empirically]] apparent: What is the [[Meaning of life|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 Hannah Arendt, ''The Human Condition'' ISBN 0226025985 itself may have gained [[popular culture|popular currency]] with ''[[The Human Condition (film trilogy)|The Human Condition]]'', a film trilogy directed by [[Masaki Kobayashi]], 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.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Human_condition&action=edit]
Although the term [[Hannah Arendt]], ''The Human Condition'' ISBN 0226025985 itself may have gained [[popular culture|popular currency]] with ''[[The Human Condition (film trilogy)|The Human Condition]]'', a film trilogy directed by [[Masaki Kobayashi]], 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.[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Human_condition&action=edit]
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