Finitude

Finitude and ultimacy are attributes, on the former hand of us and other finite entities, and on the latter hand, of the Creator of all, of God, Who alone is Ultimate.

Have we been taking things for granted, not appreciating the preciousness of our daily existence and the vulnerability associated with our own finitude?

In other words coming face to face with our mortality, our finitude and in doing so searching for an authentic way to live.

The idea of a paradise in the hereafter substitutes this life’s finitude with another life’s infinitude.

In Husserl's account the structure of protentions is accorded neither the finitude nor the primacy that Heidegger claims are central to the original future of ecstatic-horizonal temporality.

In this scene, she causes in Lear a realisation of his finitude, or as Freud put it, she causes him to "make friends with the necessity of dying".

The Christian tradition has always equated this salvation with the transcendent, eschatological fulfillment of human existence in a life freed from sin, finitude, and mortality and united with the triune God.