{"id":133,"date":"2020-05-15T11:12:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T11:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/personalisme.dk\/?page_id=133"},"modified":"2023-12-02T13:41:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T13:41:04","slug":"gabriel-marcel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/personalism.com\/?page_id=133","title":{"rendered":"Gabriel Marcel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973) was a French philosopher, theater critic, playwright, and musician. He converted to Catholicism in 1929, and his philosophy was later described as a Christian existentialism (e.g. in Jean-Paul Sartre\u2019s Existentialism is a Humanism) \u2013 a label which he first accepted, but from which he subsequently distanced himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Gabriel Marcel, humans are &#8220;available to one another&#8221;. We are beings that are sensitive to and disposed towards seeking and taking part in relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"220\" height=\"222\" src=\"https:\/\/personalisme.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/b5e531d532.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/personalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/b5e531d532.jpg 220w, https:\/\/personalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/b5e531d532-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><figcaption>Marcel claims that the human existence is characterized by the mutual disposability between humans, i.e. by their positive connections.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Marcel, the human person is not secured, nor is it even close to being liberated, in a a society shaped by liberalism. Instead it is decidedly narrowed down and restricted. As persons, humans are not opposed to any \u201cwe,\u201d but to the anonymous \u201cone\u201d (as in \u201cone wonders why\u201d). According to Marcel, the person can grow only by the perpetual relationalizing of one\u2019s inherent individuality. One does not become relational by directing one\u00b4s attention towards oneself, but rather by making oneself available and thereby more transparent, more open, to oneself and to others. Only when humans are no longer \u201cconcerned with ourselves,\u201d \u201cfull of ourselves,\u201d are we enabled to receive and embrace another person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI become a presence to the Thou, and you become a presence to me. We become irreplaceable to each other,\u201d as B.L. Knox puts it in his book about Marcel. In the same spirit, Marcel\u2019s book Homo Viator, about the metaphysics of hope, declares: \u201cI hope in Thee for us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In major works such as The Mystery of Being and Man Against Mass Society, Marcel is also interested in how to preserve the human person\u2019s true being and fullness of life in a modern society governed by materialism and technology. In modern societies, the human opportunity \u201cto be,\u201d, is threatened by mechanisms of control that focus upon \u201cproducing\u201d and \u201chaving.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973) was a French philosopher, theater critic, playwright, and musician. He converted to Catholicism in 1929, and his philosophy was later described as a Christian existentialism (e.g. in Jean-Paul Sartre\u2019s Existentialism is a Humanism) \u2013 a label which he first accepted, but from which he subsequently distanced himself. 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