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Being is that which has existence or actuality or by synecdoche a living creature or the essence or personality of a human.
Being, may also refer to:

Philosophy

  • Being (philosophy)
    Being
    Being , is an English word used for conceptualizing subjective and objective aspects of reality, including those fundamental to the self —related to and somewhat interchangeable with terms like "existence" and "living".In its objective usage —as in "a being," or "[a] human being" —it...

     The ultimate category including all this is, in eternity.
  • Being-in-itself, a term from 20th-century philosophy
  • Category of being
    Category of being
    In metaphysics , the different kinds or ways of being are called categories of being or simply categories. To investigate the categories of being is to determine the most fundamental and the broadest classes of entities...

    , the metaphysical classification of all beings
  • Ego (spirituality)
    Ego (spirituality)
    In spirituality, and especially nondual, mystical and eastern meditative traditions, individual existence is often described as a kind of illusion. This "sense of doership" or sense of individual existence is that part which believes it is the human being, and believes it must fight for itself in...

    , spiritual or religious "beingness"
  • Fictional beings and reference failure
    Fictional beings and reference failure
    According to Bertrand Russell's theory of truth, there is only one actual world, and a statement's truth value depends on whether the statement obtains in the actual world. Continuing the tradition of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell posited that a name picks out, or refers to, a real object in the...

    , a concept of Bertrand Russell
  • Great chain of being
    Great chain of being
    The great chain of being , is a Christian concept detailing a strict, religious hierarchical structure of all matter and life, believed to have been decreed by the Christian God.-Divisions:...

    , the rationalist classification of all beings
  • Human being
  • Human beings in Buddhism
    Human beings in Buddhism
    Humans in Buddhism are the subjects of an extensive commentarial literature that examines the nature and qualities of a human life from the point of view of humans' ability to achieve enlightenment...

  • Sentient beings (Buddhism)
    Sentient beings (Buddhism)
    Sentient beings is a technical term in Buddhist discourse. Broadly speaking, it denotes beings with consciousness or sentience or, in some contexts, life itself. Specifically, it denotes the presence of the five aggregates, or skandhas...

    , a type of being
  • Supreme Being
    Supreme Being
    The term Supreme Being is often defined simply as "God", and it is used with this meaning by theologians of many religious faiths, including, but not limited to, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Deism. However, the term can also refer to more complex or philosophical interpretations of the...

    , the highest in the hierarchy of beings

Music

  • Being (album)
    Being (album)
    Being is a 1974 album by the Finnish progressive rock group Wigwam.- Track listing :# "Proletarian" - 2:10# "InspiRed Machine" - 1:28# "Petty-Bourgeois" - 2:58...

    , 1974 Wigwam album
  • "Being Everyone
    Being Everyone
    Being Everyone is a 2005 single by Dutch symphonic metal band After Forever. It is from their fourth full-length album Remagine.-Track listing:Basic single#"Being Everyone " – 3:10#"Taste the Day" – 2:53Maxi single...

    ", a single by After Forever
  • Being (song)
    Being (song)
    "being" is the 5th single of Kotoko under Geneon Entertainment. The title track was used as the second opening theme for the anime series Shakugan no Shana...

    , 2006 KOTOKO song
  • Human Being (album)
    Human Being (album)
    Human Being is the third album by Seal. It was released in 1998 as a tribute to the murdered rappers Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls.Human Being received mixed reviews ranging from being panned for its overtly dark and moody feel to being described in terms such as "pop perfection." The album...

    , an album by Seal
  • "Humans Being
    Humans Being
    "Humans Being" is a song recorded and contributed by the rock band Van Halen for the film, Twister. The song's lyrics proved a major source of contention, as Eddie Van Halen felt compelled to rewrite Sammy Hagar's lyrics, calling them "cheesy"...

    ", song by Van Halen
  • Species Being
    Species Being
    Species Being was an improv/experimental rock band located in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1997 to 2002. This band is considered one of the forefathers of improv progressive music.- Members :...

    , a rock band

Other

  • Being (company)
    Being (company)
    , d.b.a. Being Giza Group, is a Japanese private entertainment conglomerate based in Tokyo's Roppongi district, founded on November 1, 1978 by musician Daiko Nagato. Being Inc. and its subsidiaries are the main supplier of theme music for the anime series Case Closed. As of May 2011, 77 theme tunes...

    , Japanese company
  • Digital being, artificially intelligent machine
  • Energy being
    Energy being
    An energy being or astral being is a name given to a group of fictional or alleged life forms sharing some aspects of their appearance or abilities attributed to the idea that they are composed of pure energy and not made of matter...

    , a fictional lifeform
  • Liminal being
    Liminal being
    Liminality has been defined as 'a semi-autonomous zone of social reality'. Liminal beings are associated with that intermediate status: 'Turner argues that the liminal personae are "necessarily ambiguous, since this condition and these persons elude or slip through the network of classifications...

    , a fictional lifeform

See also

  • Being Human (disambiguation)
  • Ontology
    Ontology
    Ontology is the philosophical study of the nature of being, existence or reality as such, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations...

    , the study of being
  • Ousia
    Ousia
    Ousia is the Ancient Greek noun formed on the feminine present participle of ; it is analogous to the English participle being, and the modern philosophy adjectival ontic...

    , Greek for being
  • "Being and Nothingness", an essay on phenomenological ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Being and Time
    Being and Time
    Being and Time is a book by the German philosopher Martin Heidegger. Although written quickly, and despite the fact that Heidegger never completed the project outlined in the introduction, it remains his most important work and has profoundly influenced 20th-century philosophy, particularly...

    , a book by Martin Heidegger
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