Like the cube, whose several faces I can never see simultaneously, the reality of the world is never presented to me as transparency, as mastery. In other words, if we confine ourselves to the point of view of human finiteness, to the idea – as expressed by Husserl, again – that ‘all consciousness is a consciousness of something’, that all consciousness is therefore limited by a world external to itself and consequently, in this sense, finite; then we must correspondingly admit that human knowledge can never attain to omniscience, can never coincide with the point of view which Christians
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