Gabriel Marcel Quotes on Knowledge
Gabriel Marcel (1889–1973), the French Catholic existentialist whose Metaphysical Journal (1927), Being and Having (1935), and the Gifford lectures published as The Mystery of Being (1951) gave twentieth-century continental thought a distinctive religious-existentialist alternative to Sartre's atheism, defended the fundamental distinction between problems and mysteries. A problem stands before the inquirer as an object whose features can be objectively analyzed; a mystery — the body, intersubjectivity, faith, the self as a concrete being — is a situation in which the inquirer is him- or herself implicated and which therefore admits only of a participatory rather than a detached cognitive approach. Marcel called the resulting position concrete philosophy.
Quotes
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Attributed to Gabriel Marcel:
“A philosopher must accept the mystery of being.”
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Attributed to Gabriel Marcel:
“The intellect's deepest task is to safeguard the mystery.”
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“Being is - or should be - necessary.”
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“When the pessimist Besme says in La Ville that nothing is, he means precisely this, that there is no experience that withstands the analytical test.”
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“No doubt I shall be told: "In the immense majority of cases this is an illusion." But it is of the essence of hope to exlclude the consideration of cases; moreover, it can be shown that there exists an ascedning dialectic of hope, whereby hope rises to a plane which transcends the level of all possible empirical disproof - the plane of salvation as opposed to that of success in whatever form”
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“speaking metaphysically, the only genuine hope is hope in what does not depend on ourselves, hope springing from humility and not from pride.”
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