Six Aspects Of The Expected Life In The Examined Life By Cornel West

How do you birthduring your life even after you are brought into this world? The human condition is defined as the the characteristics which compose the essentials of the human existence. The six aspects of the human condition (birth, growth, emotionality, aspiration, conflict, mortality) are characteristics that people in this world feel that you need to be a moral human being. Most people aren’t aware that they’re living the human condition, but that doesn’t mean that they aren’t using these characteristics during their lifetime. Throughout various texts aspiration, conflict and birth seem to be the popular characteristics used in their pieces. Aspiration is seen as a hope or desire of achieving something. Conflict is seen as a prolonged struggle and birth is seen not as coming into the world in this case but as achieving something new or starting a new chapter in your life. How do these texts relate to the human condition?

When we see aspiration the think of the desire and the will to achieve a goal

In fact, no one goes through a single day without any conflict. Conflict can come in many different ways, such as emotionally and physically. In the text “The Examined Life” by Cornel West the writer talks about having internal conflict to be able to find your true meaning in life. You cannot go through life without facing a conflict and most of the time you have to fail first to finally succeed. Cornel writes “it takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul, than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield”. Comparing this to going to war means that this is a pretty big conflict to have. Also in Cornels piece he talks about how in life you cannot rebirth in life without death in life. Death referring to a failure or a conflict in your life that you have to go through because you start a new part of your life. Another way that conflicts are apart of our everyday