He is conceivable as the abnormal possibility of
our normal human existence in negative faith.
For both Augustine and Hobbes the bellum omnium is a marginal case, illustrative of certain truths about human nature but not, except in situations of exceptional breakdown, actually descriptive of
normal human existence.
Not exact matches
They may be regarded as precursors of
human creativity, and point to the
existence of unsuspected potentials in the organism which are dormant in the
normal routines of
existence but emerge in response to new challenges offered by the environment — a zoological analogy to Toynbee's paradigm of Challenge and Response.
Harry is offered a place at prestigious Hogwarts, a boarding school for wizards that exists in a realm of magic and fantasy outside the dreary
existence of
normal humans or «Muggles.»
The surviving Brits do what they can to eke out a
normal existence, hoping that the sole remaining organization still working on the problem of fertility, The
Human Project, can somehow find a way to stop the certain decline of humanity and produce a means to fertility again.
By making private suffering public via say, a dark painting or a somber piece of music, we are comforted by being reminded that pain and suffering is a
normal part of
human existence.
But unless you believe we will see runaway winters to the point of a «Day After Tomorrow» movie script, it is hard to believe
human existence is seriously threatened by some colder than
normal winters.