Finitude: Living with Limits, Choice, and the Unfinished Life
有限性：在不可完成中承受
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Book description
Finitude begins from a simple but unavoidable fact: a human life cannot contain every possibility.
We do not have unlimited time, unlimited strength, unlimited attention, or unlimited relation.
To be finite is not merely to be weak.
It is to live under conditions where choice, responsibility, love, and direction become real.
This book examines finitude not as failure, but as the condition under which a person learns to judge, choose, let go, remain faithful, and continue.
It is written for readers who feel the pressure of unfinished life: too many possibilities, too many claims, too little time, and no final guarantee that everything can be completed.
Finitude is the first book in Bearing: Season One.
It does not offer motivational slogans or easy consolation.
It asks how a person can live with seriousness when life cannot be made complete.
This book is for readers who
- want serious but readable public philosophy;
- are following the first-season programme from Onward Philosophy Press;
- want clear title, series, and edition information before release.
In this book
- the central problem named in the title;
- its relation to ordinary human experience;
- its place within the larger series.
Jie Chen
Jie Chen holds a PhD in philosophy from Peking University and lives in Canada. Chen’s work moves between systematic philosophy and public philosophy, bringing philosophical seriousness into ordinary conditions of human life.
Onward Philosophy Press
Onward Philosophy Press is an independent philosophy publisher based in Vancouver, Canada. Its Chinese name is 向哲出版社.