English
Etymology
L. finire.
Pronunciation
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Noun
finitude
- Limitation.
References
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1956 (2001) Jean-Paul Sartre Being and Nothingness
:"Finitude: To be carefully distinguished from "mortality." Finitude refers not to the fact that man dies but to the fact that as a free choice of his own project of being, he makes himself finite by excluding other possbilities each time he chooses the one which he prefers. Man would thus, because of his facticity, be finite even if immortal." 1
1991 P. Christopher Smith Hermeneutics and Human Finitude
:"It shows up in Gadamer, however, quite differently: in his insistence, namely, on human finitude and the limits of human consciousness all the while he continues to take up traditional issues of speculative philosophy." 2
1992 Joan Stambaugh The Finitude of Being
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