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Apr 17, 2014 · The sense of hope that both Marcel and I believe in is the verb form of hope—hoping that something happens or becomes the case—which is essentially the same as wishing or longing for something. We hope, wish, or long for some vaguely defined outcome which we do not expect to be fulfilled.
Apr 7, 2023 · Marcel defines hope as a sense of expectation or anticipation that is directed towards the future. According to Marcel, hope is not simply a feeling or emotion, but a fundamental orientation towards the world.
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Gabriel Marcel was born in Paris in 1889, the city where he also died in 1973. Marcel was the only child of Henri and Laure Marcel. His father was a French diplomat to Sweden and was committed to educating his son through frequent travel across Europe. The death of his mother, in 1893 when Gabriel was not quite four years old left an indelible impr...
A strange inner mutation is spreading throughout humanity, according to Marcel. As odd as it first seems, this mutation is evoked by the awareness that members of humanity are contingent on conditions which make up the framework for their very existence. Man recognizes that at root, he is an existing thing, but he somehow feels compelled to prove h...
Marcel was an early proponent of what would become a major Sartrean existential tenet: I am my body. For Marcel, the body does not have instrumental value, nor is it simply a part or extension of the self. Instead, the self cannot be eradicated from the body. It is impossible for the self to conceive of the body in any way at all except for as a di...
For Marcel, to exist only as body is to exist problematically. To exist existentially is to exist as a thinking, emotive, being, dependent upon the human creative impulse. He believed that, “As soon as there is creation, we are in the realm of being,” and also that, “There is no sense using the word ‘being’ except where creation is in view,” (PGM x...
Dominating Marcel’s philosophical development was the intersection of his interest in the individuality of beings and his interest in the relations which bind beings together. An acceptable ontology must account for the totality of the lived experience, and so must have as a point of departure the fact that humans are fundamentally embodied. From t...
The term “presence” is used in various ways in the English language, although each connote a “here-ness” that indicates whether or not a subject was “here”. One of the differences in how we use the term is in the strength of a thing’s “here-ness”. Two people sitting in close physical proximity on an airplane might not be present to each other, alth...
The existential life that Marcel paints as possible for humanity is largely one of hope—but not one of optimism. Being in the world as body allows one to seek out new opportunities for the self, and so Marcelian hope is deeply pragmatic in that it refuses to compute all of the possibilities against oneself. But the picture is not rosy. Hope for Mar...
Bollnow, Otto Friedrich. “Marcel’s Concept of Availability,” In The Philosophy of Gabriel Marcel: The Library of Living Philosophers, 17. Edited by Paul Arthur Schlipp and Lewis Edwin Hahn. LaSa...Gallagher, Kenneth T. The Philosophy of Gabriel Marcel.NY: Fordham University Press, 1962. Abbreviated PGM.Marcel, Gabriel. “Autobiographical Essay,” In The Philosophy of Gabriel Marcel: The Library of Living Philosophers, 17. Edited by Paul Arthur Schlipp and Lewis Edwin Hahn. LaSalle, IL: Open Cour...Marcel, Gabriel. Being and Having. New York: Harper & Row, 1965. Abbreviated BH.For Marcel, hope is a way of overcoming the trials of life. These trials can take the form of, for example, illness, separation, exile or slavery. ‘Hope is situated within the framework of the trial, not only corresponding to it, but constituting our being’s veritable response ’ (1945: 30; original emphasis).
Mar 8, 2017 · Whereas the positive role of hope in Camus is at best hidden, it surfaces prominently in the writings of Marcel. At the heart of Marcel’s account of hope is the distinction between “‘I hope…’, the absolute statement, and ‘I hope that…’” (Marcel [1952] 2010: 26).
Fresh Hope for a Broken World: Gabriel Marcel's Phenomenology of Liberation. Franz Joseph Yoshiy II. 2015, Talisik: An Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy. By the advent of the 21st century, the world is slowly succumbing (if not succumbed) to a certain 'broken-ness'.
Nov 16, 2004 · Finally, it should be no surprise that “speaking metaphysically, the only genuine hope is hope in what does not depend on ourselves, hope springing from humility and not from pride” (Marcel 1995, p. 32).
