Finitude (cont.)

13. It is humanly necessary to seek the "other," whether this other is another finite being who inspires in us a sense of kinship, love, delight, or whether the other is God, the Infinite who becomes, in practice, finite to our finite, allowing infinity to bounded by our finitude. If we fail to become aware of this Other, to find or be found, the prospects for our lives are diminished. If we take finitude to be not only a chief defining mark of our existence but the only relevant mark of it, we shall be tempted to see ourselves as lone battlers, strugglers, competitors in a war of survival, each monad against every other. This is how finitude becomes what Paul called "the flesh."