limitedness

In my book, Trauma and Human Existence (Routledge, 2007), I offered an account of the essence of emotional trauma: In shattering the tranquilizing illusions of everyday life, trauma requires us to own up to what these illusions have been evading -- human finiteness (i.e., limitedness, vulnerability, mortality, etc.)

Robert D. Stolorow: Health Care Reform, Climate Change, and the Evasion of Our Mortality 2009

And we shall care about this largely to the extent to which we are conscious of our own vulnerability and limitedness.

Ethics, Economics and Global Justice 2009

Tragedy, and also philosophy, attempt to reassert limitedness.

The ritual of public anger 2009

Tragedy, and also philosophy, attempt to reassert limitedness.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

True horror destabilizes us—carries us to the brink of our limitedness as humans and there forces us to confront the abyss of chaos that surrounds us, from which only God can save us.

Archive 2009-03-15 2009

Tragedy, and also philosophy, attempt to reassert limitedness.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

Classical Greece, did not have such categories implies the historical limitedness of our own categories.

Foucault and the Hedgerow History of Sexuality 2006

Earlier Greek thinkers had tended to speak of limitedness and unlimitedness in ways suggesting a qualitative rather than a quantitative notion.

Zeno of Elea Palmer, John 2008

Yes, it is, but it is my conviction is that its limitedness is its strength and that were it to be expanded the only gain would be the pious fuzziness you can get from a thousand other commentators.

"The difference between making arguments and analyzing them is not always recognized, and ... readers get outraged about things I never said." Ann Althouse 2008

As we have seen, Spengler viewed the essential Magian world concept to be one of limitedness—of being confined, as in a cave.

Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005