the human race
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 5 anchored passages
human soul · men · mortal living being · the race of men · the race of mortals · the whole human race
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Timaeus
Humanity, created as a mortal living being combining immortal soul and mortal body, subject to moral striving and eschatological consequence.
But since the nature of the human race was twofold, the matter so stood that the more excellent kind was that of those who should be men.
from which things we have won philosophy, than which no good more to be desired, none more excellent, has ever been given, or ever shall be, to the race of mortals by the grant and gift of the gods .
And that will come to pass when, by reason, he has driven out those turbulent and reasonless things which from fire, air, water, and earth had settled within him, and has come through to the first and best condition of the soul.
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Humanity as a whole, repeatedly invoked as the community whose common good is at stake in the trade dispute.
Therefore, if it be necessary, arise, O nation unconquered on the sea, and fight boldly, not only for your own liberty, but for that of the human race.
Is the same thing then which is considered grievous and pernicious in the smaller community of a state to be put up with at all in that great community of the human race?
But the cause of the Dutch is the more reasonable, because their advantage in this matter is bound up with the advantage of the whole human race, an advantage which the Portuguese are trying to destroy.