ABSTRACT
This chapter draws together the main ideas that have emerged, to tie up loose ends, and to combine these in to a coherent whole. It discusses the whole enquiry of human finitude. The basic premise for this chapter has been that the author, like all human beings, is (metaphysically) finite. Immanuel Kant, along with many others, though with greater boldness and with a purer vision than most, insisted that there was also, deep within author, essential to author’s very being, a metaphysical infinitude: the metaphysical infinitude of reason. Human finitude — has two fundamental aspects. There is the metaphysical finitude of which it is a species. And there is the self-consciousness which is its differentia. It is the self-consciousness that gives it its distinctive character. What human finitude is self-conscious metaphysical finitude.
