How to Contemplate the Infinite and Create Meaningful Things?

Human beings seem to care. There seems to be a piece of whatever this homo sapient thing is that cares, that our actions in this life at least count for something. But why? Becker is going to start to explain this. Phenomenon by pointing out what he thinks is a fundamental dualistic relationship that lies at the core of human existence. And it is this duality and the tension that it produce that creates in us a problem. We're capable of contemplating the infinite, becker says, we're capable of all this cool stuff. At the exact same time, you can be contemplating the infinite one second, and then take one wrong step off a curb and just get