Mankind
group · 4 works · 5 mentions · 9 anchored passages
mankind · men · the human species · al-bashar · al-ins · al-nawʻ al-insānī · all mankind · human beings · humanity · man
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The Law of Intellectual Property
The human race collectively, whose universal practices are cited as evidence for the principles argued in the passage.
So self-evident, indeed, is it that ideas are wealth, in the universal judgment of mankind, that it would have been entirely unnecessary to assert and illustrate the fact thus elaborately, in this connection, were it not that the principle lies at the foundation of all inquiries as to what is property;
Mankind, in their dealings with each other, in their purchases, and in their sales, both tacitly and expressly acknowledge and act upon the principle, that a thought is wealth;
Men earn their livings, and support their families, by producing and selling ideas.
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
The human species, whose souls are argued to be one in nature while its individuals diverge widely in the three powers, in learning, in memory and in understanding.
On showing the divergence among individual human beings from the side of the three powers (2) proper to human individuals;
“The souls of mankind are as a genus, and beneath it are many species, differing one from another by nature;
“The souls of mankind are one and all a single nature, and there is no difference among them save by the accidents, the pleasures, and the qualities of the mixtures
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
Humankind, set by the lexicographers as the visible counterpart of the jinn, and the bearers of features in which the Arabs imagined they could read the jinn.
) And *jinn* is used of the spiritual beings (*al-rūḥānīyūn*) that are covered from the senses altogether, as the counterpart of mankind (*al-ins*).
(18) Their imagining of the features of the jinn in human beings (*al-ins*).
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
Mankind considered as a species with a proper end.
Since happiness is the lost thing the human species goes seeking, and man is worthy of pursuing it so that his life shall not be squandered away between care and grief, delusion and fancies, sicknesses and pains, expansion and constriction, hardship and ease, poverty and wealth, honour and abasement — all of which, the moment he enters his grave, becomes a tale of what once was — it is a duty upon …
And thus we grieve for humanity, for it has been tormented by its own frame — and you are one of those who chewed it with the mouth and pricked it with the nib of the pen.
Enjoyment, then, as I have said, is sought by the human species;