Gott in Plessners Anthropologie

According to Plessner’s third anthropological law, the eccentric man is a utopian animal. He never coincides with himself, neither with his own body nor with the world surrounding him. So, at the same time, man is a body and has a body, he is his own world and has his own world. On the one hand his eccentricity urges him to surpass every object, every idea, every border, and to transcend continuously himself; on the other hand he is never content with his world and with his divinity. Eccentricity is at the same time what allows religion and what persuades man to surpass it.