Reflections On Man and the Human Condition

About the Book

Reflections on Man and the Human Condition is an eclectic mix of philosophic, serious, humorous, politically incorrect and occasionally pointless observations on man and his condition. It has 71 short chapters that combines thoughts and quotes from many famous historic literary and philosophic thinkers with the authors ideas and biases. The book is divided generally into two sections which are observations on man (which involves man’s relation to himself and man’s relations to other men} and observations on the human condition (which involves man’s relation to the world). The observations contained in the book are occasionally prescriptive when the involve circumstances within man’s control and descriptive when they are not.

About the Author

John L. Bowman was born in Portland, Oregon and graduated from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington in 1973 with a major in biology. He has worked in the commercial real estate business in Portland for 30 years and currently owns and operates John L. Bowman, Realtor. He obtained a degree in philosophy from Portland State University in 1993. He has traveled the world extensively and lived in Greece in 1992 where most of the book Reflections on Man and the Human Condition was written. The author is married and has three children.