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[Sirius_El]

Here's the etymology of the word ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΣ - Anthropos - Human

The Greek word for Human is the word ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΣ (Anthropos) and becomes from the words ΑΝΩ ΘΡΩΣΚΩ (ano throsko).

ΑΝΩ (ano) = high
ΘΡΩΣΚΩ = 1. I fly, 2. Jump high, 3. Dashing against 4. I run

So we can say that ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΣ (Anthropos - Human) is he who gazing up high, or predestined to be up high...

The etymology of the word may be includes also the message, How should be every human, , a being for a higher destination and to become a superior, spiritual and cultural.

The English word Human, becomes from the Latin word Homo. And Homo becomes from the Greek word ΧΩΜΑ (homa) and this means earth /soil.

Like Bible says that humans are made of earth /soil and water.

Looking these two etymologies, there's for sure a big difference!!!

ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΣ - Anthropos - Human is a being predestined for a higher purpose

and Human is a just a being made of earth /soil and water....

[Sirius_El]

The present participle of the verb ΘΡΩΣΚΩ (throsko) is ΘΡΩΣΚΩΝ (throskon) and means ΑΡΡΗΝ (arin).


ΑΡΡΗΝ (arin) is 1. The Male 2. The strong one

[belisarius]

An interesting topic.

Human (humus, homa, earth), I think, are similarly related in the Old Testament (Adam.) Interestingly, Adam also has a feminine version Adama, and similarly man "haish" and woman "haisha," are of the same root.
Perhaps, related to the fact that the gender in the early stages of embrio does not exist?

In classical, and contemporary, Greek anthropos, human being, manifests himself either as a man - avnr, or a woman, gyvn. English, interestingly, in lingua franca is less precise. While it does talk of a man and a woman, human being, in anthropological terms, is, generally, refered to as man. (See for example Juergen Moltmann: What is Man? a book on theological anthropology.)

Jean-Paul Sartre has articulated some of the ideas listed at the beginning of the thread: human nature striving for something higher. Sartre has it something like, (I am quoting from memory,): human nature is a project to become God. That in itself leads back into the complex statement from the Book of Genesis: let us make a man in our image and likeness. In addition to God being referred to in terms of plural (Trinity,) human nature is given as essentially a relationship - as image and likeness are related to the original.

Hermetic interpretation of the Delphic Maxim gvothi seautov, as opposed to the Cynical school, appears to be in the same sphere. O gvothov seautov eis autov xorei , is parallel to the biblical opening of ones eyes, and knowing the good and evil. In the Delphic Maxim one anihilates God - through suicide - and returns to oneself - becomes God himself, i.e. is the cause of one's own being, a source of one's own existence. Almost exactly what the snake promised Eve in Paradise when goading her to try the fruit of the forbidden tree. (The only sin that the Church regards as unforgivable is suicide: an attempt to become God, and to forsake the true existence of the relationship!?)

Existenitialist phaenomenology - the easiest one to read is Sartre's Being and Nothingness, elucidates this by giving lengthy analysis of the nature of scientific research and nature of knowledge - a project to actualise human nature "to become God."

[Sirius_El]

An interesting topic.

Human (humus, homa, earth), I think, are similarly related in the Old Testament (Adam.) Interestingly, Adam also has a feminine version Adama, and similarly man "haish" and woman "haisha," are of the same root.
Perhaps, related to the fact that the gender in the early stages of embrio does not exist?

In classical, and contemporary, Greek anthropos, human being, manifests himself either as a man - avnr, or a woman, gyvn. English, interestingly, in lingua franca is less precise. While it does talk of a man and a woman, human being, in anthropological terms, is, generally, refered to as man. (See for example Juergen Moltmann: What is Man? a book on theological anthropology.)

Jean-Paul Sartre has articulated some of the ideas listed at the beginning of the thread: human nature striving for something higher. Sartre has it something like, (I am quoting from memory,): human nature is a project to become God. That in itself leads back into the complex statement from the Book of Genesis: let us make a man in our image and likeness. In addition to God being referred to in terms of plural (Trinity,) human nature is given as essentially a relationship - as image and likeness are related to the original.

Hermetic interpretation of the Delphic Maxim gvothi seautov, as opposed to the Cynical school, appears to be in the same sphere. O gvothov seautov eis autov xorei , is parallel to the biblical opening of ones eyes, and knowing the good and evil. In the Delphic Maxim one anihilates God - through suicide - and returns to oneself - becomes God himself, i.e. is the cause of one's own being, a source of one's own existence. Almost exactly what the snake promised Eve in Paradise when goading her to try the fruit of the forbidden tree. (The only sin that the Church regards as unforgivable is suicide: an attempt to become God, and to forsake the true existence of the relationship!?)

Existenitialist phaenomenology - the easiest one to read is Sartre's Being and Nothingness, elucidates this by giving lengthy analysis of the nature of scientific research and nature of knowledge - a project to actualise human nature "to become God."

That's exactly the spirit of this point.

Human is a being or a project as you said, with much more possibilities than we think, and destined for something higher.

Yes, human was made in the image and likeness of God!!!

You are right also mentioning, that with the word 'Ανθρωπος (Anthropos-Human) Greeks means Man (Ανήρ - Anir) and Woman (Γυνή - Gini) both!!!

The English word for Man can mean Human, but can mean Male also...

The fact is, that viewing these two etymologies is obvious that there's a totally different view of what is a Human!!!


P.S

As for the plural in Genesis...

Nobody so far answered me, why there's the term Elohim there that is a plural (like saying the Gods...), and why God speaks in plural

[Sirius_El]

It is very interesting that, Hesiod makes use of a scheme of Four Ages of Man (or Races): Golden, Silver, Bronze, and Iron.

Hesiod intercalates the Age (or Race) of Heroes just after the Bronze Age (So actually are five of them).
These races or ages are separate creations of the gods .

The Golden Age belonging to the reign of Cronus, the subsequent races the creation of Zeus. The final age was the Iron Age, during which the poet himself lived (the same we the current humans).

So there's a question here...

Does humans evoluted form a lower being to a superior one?

Or actually human is a being with too much more abilities, created in the image and likeness of God but felt in to decay?