The human condition is made up of the unique features that make us human.
The experiences of life as human beings.
The positive and negative aspects of existence as a human being esp. the inevitable events such as birth, childhood, adolescence, love, sex, reproduction, aging and death.
It includes concerns such as, the meaning of life, the search for gratification, the sense of curiosity, self-reflection and the awareness regarding inevitable death.
The human condition also encompasses the unique features of being human, such as greed, lust, love, pride and ambition.
The human condition is studied through art, philosophy, literature and history to help us understand the nature of being human and what makes u human – Lust Love Greed Pride Ambition Self reflection capable of good and evil freedom to choose, desire, death, repetition, religion & ego.
The Denial of Death is a 1973 work of psychology and philosophy by Ernest Becker. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1974, two months after the author's death.
The book builds on the works of Søren Kierkegaard, Sigmund Freud, and Otto Rank.
The Denial of Death – The Denial of Death is the concept that the human civilization is ultimately an elaborate, symbolic defense mechanism against the knowledge of our mortality, which in turn acts as the emotional and intellectual response to our basic survival mechanism.
