finitude

IPA: fˈɪnʌtud

Examples of "finitude" in Sentences

According to Heidegger, finitude is the essence of being human.
Living in full acknowledgement of our finitude is the key to being authentic or rather the key to authentic being.
From a 42-year-old man who had felt invincible but now was coming to grips with finitude, limitation and mortality.
This might be why many people have problems saying thank you, as thank you involves recognition of finitude, that one is limited -- that one cannot do it alone.
But hoda'ah is also associated with recognition of finitude, with recognition of our natural human limitations which should impel us to declare ani modeh or ani modah -- I admit to my failings.
Strenger interprets the quest for various forms of celebrity as a worldwide escapist flight from human finitude and the tragic dimension of human existence into mindless, inauthentic delusions of omnipotence.