Humankind
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
man · a person · mankind · the human being · الانسان · شخص
in the texts
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
The human species as the privileged creature, whose perfection and felicity the science of character serves.
who favoured man above the rest of creation with preponderant intellect and righteous works, that he might discern the outcomes of prudence and draw taut the courses of resolve, and who enabled him to climb the ascents of perfection and to adorn himself with sound deeds, so that he might be lit by the light of success and given drink in the shade of prosperity.
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
The human species, both the standing example of nawʻ in the logical apparatus and the cognitive subject whose powers and defects the introduction anatomises
animal is a genus, man a species, rational (*nāṭiq*) a differentia, bare-skinned a common accident, and laughing by nature a proprium
But man is struck through with opinion and intuition, and made of intellect and sense, sent back and forth between deficiency and excess, and exposed at every moment to wretchedness and to felicity;
So, for instance, were we to see a person and measure him by this model standard, we should find it to fit him exactly, and we should say of him without hesitation that he is an animal