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Gabriel Marcel
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
— p. 1
Gabriel Marcel
French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist (1889-1973)
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A philosopher who refused the existentialist label even as he pioneered it in France, writing plays and criticism alongside arguments that modern technology was grinding down what it means to be human.
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Gabriel Honoré Marcel was born 7 December 1889 and spent a life split between the stage and the seminar room, authoring over a dozen books and at least thirty plays. He built what he called a philosophy of existence — or neo-Socrateanism — centered on the individual's struggle inside a technologically dehumanizing world. Though often tagged as the first French existentialist, he kept his distance from Sartre and that crowd, insisting the term didn't fit. His two-volume work The Mystery of Being carried the weight of that argument. He died 8 October 1973, a Christian thinker who'd carved his ow…
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Gabriel Marcel
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No two beings, and no two situations, are really commensurable with each other. To become aware of this fact is to undergo a sort of crisis.
— p. 25
Gabriel Marcel
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The past, when it is merely known historically (that is, as a subject for abstract study), somehow piles itself up outside our real lives. ...
— p. 39
Gabriel Marcel
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We are living in a world which seems to be founded on the refusal to reflect.
— p. 132
Gabriel Marcel
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We ought to be able to see more clearly just for what reason the mass-man is so easily turned into a fanatic.
— pp. 140-141
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