Life
idea · 4 works · 5 mentions · 8 anchored passages
life · al-ḥayāh · الحياة
in the texts
Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad
Life, the subject of the three great European views, taken variously as a supernatural force and gift of the First Cause, as generable only from the living, and as arising from the cell amid germs that fill the void.
The most important views of the Europeans on life are three great views.
That the void which we see is filled with germs, the living forms, as with the indivisible particles of which inert matter is composed;
for the living, on their view, is generated only from the living.
Aphorisms
Human lifespan, invoked as brief relative to the art of medicine.
Life is short, and Art long;
The Law of Intellectual Property
A person's life, treated as their incorporeal property.
And the nature of men assures us, that there was never a time known among them, when the injury or destruction of various kinds of incorporeal property, as, for example, strength, sight, health, beauty, liberty, and life, was not considered and treated as a wrong to be avenged.
Life itself is incorporeal.
On the Shortness of Life
The central abstract subject of the essay: human lifespan considered as a resource that can be wasted or well used.
Just as great and royal wealth, once it has come into the hands of a bad master, is scattered in a moment, while wealth however modest, if entrusted to a good guardian, grows with use, so our lifetime extends amply for the man who orders it well.
Life is long enough, and it has been given to us in generous measure for the accomplishment of the greatest things, if the whole of it were well invested.
Life is divided into three periods: