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The first English use of the expression "meaning of life" appears in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), book II chapter IX, "The Everlasting Yea". [1]Our Life is compassed round with Necessity; yet is the meaning of Life itself no other than Freedom, than Voluntary Force: thus have we a warfare; in the beginning, especially, a hard-fought battle.
Life is a quality that distinguishes matter that has biological processes, such as signaling and self-sustaining processes, from matter that does not. It is defined descriptively by the capacity for homeostasis, organisation, metabolism, growth, adaptation, response to stimuli, and reproduction.
Humans often live in family-based social structures. Society is the system of organizations and institutions arising from interaction between humans. Humans are highly social and tend to live in large complex social groups. They can be divided into different groups according to their income, wealth, power, reputation and other factors.
Human life span, statistical measure of the average time a human being is expected to live; Human Life Amendment, various proposals to amend the United States Constitution to prohibit abortion; Human Life International, an American-based Roman Catholic activist anti-abortion organization; The Human Life Review, a quarterly journal devoted to ...
A civilized human is therefore not only imbalanced and unhappy because of the mismatch between civilized life and human nature, but unlike Hobbes, Rousseau also became well known for the suggestion that primitive humans had been happier, "noble savages". [86]
Winnie Holzman, writer of ‘My So-Called Life’ and ‘Wicked,’ speaks with CNN Opinion’s Jane Carr about the experience of creating ‘Choice,’ a play about abortion - and the other ...
Another example is that the full actualization of a human being would be living a fully functional human life in accordance with reason (which he considered to be a faculty unique to humanity). [124] For Aristotle, the soul is the organization of the form and matter of a natural being which allows it to strive for its full actualization.
Called the Anthropocene — and derived from the Greek terms for “human” and “new” — this epoch started sometime between 1950 and 1954, according to the scientists. ... humans have ...