"That there are instincts, basic conditions of human nature that lead to a preferred social order.
The west, especially the United States, is partially responsible for the dismal status of women and the harsh conditions of human rights in Saudi Arabia.
The advocacy has even helped to push the World Bank beyond its usual reticence to impose conditions of human rights and democratic participation.
The South Korean writer Cho Kyong-nan has won the Dongin Literary Prize: "Cho keenly sees the existential conditions of human beings living in modern society — waking up early in the morning, barely appeasing hunger and withstanding loneliness".
"In the name of humanity and the United Nations charter, [we] appeal to you to intervene for ending the deteriorating conditions of human rights, state-sponsored violence and prejudice in Iran".
The conditions of human existence, the reach of human abilities, the purpose of life -- at least in a biological sense -- have boundaries that are engraved in the genome's gnomic text.
Rather, a significant proportion of those fleeing countries such as Afghanistan or Iraq are fleeing a chronically fragile state, within which they are unable to secure the minimum conditions of human dignity.
"Your imminent visit to Tehran to participate in the upcoming Non-Aligned Movement conference shall provide a unique opportunity to assess the dire conditions of human rights in Iran first hand," said the letter, signed by more than 400 intellectuals.
Meanwhile, a group of Iranian academics and activists have written a letter to the secretary general, calling on him to use his visit to highlight "the dire conditions of human rights" in Iran and meet Mousavi and Karroubi.
In the Christian understanding, suffering also does not appear as in Buddhism as suffering simply under the general conditions of human existence in this world; it is instead coupled with the specifically Christian idea of the imitation of Christ.
"We can view the past and achieve our understanding of the past only through the eyes of the present," argued the historian EH Carr in his landmark 1961 essay What Is History? "The historian is of his own age, and is bound to it by the conditions of human existence".
