Voorbeelden van finitude

• The book also considers - and rejects - the argument that we should not be looking to extend life, since finitude lends life savour, sweetness and value.

• This idea in turn was based on the notion that infinity is actual rather than potential, which in turn renders all finitudes into potential finitudes.

• Only a dialectical balance of the polarities we experience in finitude can overcome the one-sided emphasis (in this case) upon form or stasis.

• They seemed unconcerned both by their own age and by the finitude of their own life.

• The possibilities of constructionism and postmodern multiple options for identity are constrained by biological ageing, by the finitude of the human body.

• It is a theory of the radical finitude of human thought, but theists have at least as good reason to make that point as atheists.

• Taylor's attempt to undercut this premiss of the argument by defeating the philosophical arguments for the finitude of the past cannot be deemed a success.

• However, conflating infinitude and finitude is not as simple as such a statement would lead one to believe for we now have several problems.

• The finitude of nature: rethinking the ethics of biotechnology.

• At the same time, the cosmic dimension looks forward to the mysteries of finitude and beyond.

• At 85 years, they were also developing an awareness of finitude.

• Hence, (z) consists of singularities and, due to their finitude, it is a singular orbit.

• It may well appear to many that the debate about the necessary finitude of the past is redundant.

• Defined by such means, the self would gain a certain finitude.

• The finitude of life not only makes it necessary to have goals but to shape those goals to fit a life.