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  2. The Human Predicament - Wikipedia

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    [10] At the same time, she questioned Benatar's stance on suicide on the grounds that while suicide does not fully solve the human predicament, it may resolve some issues, and "partial solutions can be appropriate" [10] as a rational response to one's predicament. She also criticized Benatar's stance that if life "feels worth continuing, then ...

  3. Polycrisis - Wikipedia

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    Polycrisis (from the French polycrise or poly-crise), a term originally coined by French philosopher and sociologist Edgar Morin in his 1993 book Terre-Patrie, [1] describes a complex situation where multiple, interconnected crises converge and amplify each other, resulting in a predicament that is difficult to manage or resolve. [2]

  4. Existential crisis - Wikipedia

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    But on the other hand, there is also often an impression in the affected that they are in some sense responsible for their predicament. [3] [6] This is the case, for example, if the loss of meaning is associated with bad choices in the past for which the individual feels guilty. But it can also take the form of a more abstract type of bad ...

  5. Cassandra (metaphor) - Wikipedia

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    He prefers to access (or judge) the situation or the person from a distance, not knowing that he must "get close up"—be vulnerable and empathic—in order to truly know someone else ... But if the woman wants a deeper, more personal relationship, then there are difficulties ... she may become increasingly irrational or hysterical.

  6. Human condition - Wikipedia

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    This painting, with symbols of life, death, and time, is an example of memento mori art. [1]The human condition can be defined as the characteristics and key events of human life, including birth, learning, emotion, aspiration, reason, morality, conflict, and death.

  7. Catch-22 (logic) - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Heller coined the term in his 1961 novel Catch-22, which describes absurd bureaucratic constraints on soldiers in World War II.The term is introduced by the character Doc Daneeka, an army psychiatrist who invokes "Catch-22" to explain why any pilot requesting mental evaluation for insanity—hoping to be found not sane enough to fly and thereby escape dangerous missions—demonstrates ...

  8. Ethical dilemma - Wikipedia

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    For example, it may turn out that the proposed situation is impossible, that one choice is objectively better than the other or that there is an additional choice that was not mentioned in the description of the example. But for the argument of the defenders to succeed, it is sufficient to have at least one genuine case. [4]

  9. Situation semantics - Wikipedia

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    Situations, unlike worlds, are not complete in the sense that every proposition or its negation holds in a world. According to Situations and Attitudes, meaning is a relation between a discourse situation, a connective situation and a described situation. The original theory of Situations and Attitudes soon ran