Humans Precede the Human Being

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The Intended Meaning

Human is the first physiological existence of the living being before the completion of humanization. In this sense, humans precede the human being, who is completed with the human dimension after a transitional stage in evolution.

The Atom’s Structure in the Atlas

  • Type of argument: definitional
  • Movement of the argument: it makes humans a prior stage to the human being before the completion of humanization.
  • Central terms: humans, human being, humanization, stage.
  • Degree of centrality: central.

This atom explains the conceptual ordering between humans and the human being, making the former a prior stage and the latter the result of the completion of a broader human dimension.

Basis

  • Supporting text: “Humans: the first physiological existence of the living being before the completion of humanization.”

Location of the Basis in the Book

  • Book: Quranic Stories Vol. 1.
  • Location: in the final section of the book, within the conclusion of the chapter on the emergence of life.
  • Type of basis: close evidence.
  • Mark that helps verification: the emergence of life and the evolution of humans
  • Reading note: this location is suitable as evidence because it links the emergence of life with the evolution of humans and the human being within a processual movement, and it is close to the atom.

Degree of Documentation

  • Level: directly documented
  • Meaning of the level: the atom rests on an explicit witness close to the wording of the claim.
  • Limits of reading: the wording above is an analytical summary and is not treated as a verbatim quotation unless the witness is cited textually.

Its Function in the Book

Its function here is definitional; it establishes a meaning or conceptual distinction on which Shahrur relies in building the idea.

Editorial Note

The meaning is close to the previous atom and complementary to it.

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