The Human Condition

In English 30-1 this year, our learning was based around relating to the human condition. When we first started the course I thought the human condition was the aspects of being human which can be positive or negative and the unique features of being human.
Though when looking up the definition of the human condition it is described as the irreducible part of humanity that is inherent and not dependent on factors such as gender, race, or class. It includes concerns such as the meaning of life, the search forgratification, the sense of curiosity, the inevitability of isolation, or awareness regarding the inescapability of death. The "human condition" is principally studied through the set of disciplines and sub-fields that make up the humanities. The study of history, philosophy, literature and the arts all help us to understand the nature of the human condition and the broader cultural and social arrangements that make up human lives.