Marcel, Gabriel

Marcel, Gabriel
(1889-1973)
   A French existentialist philosopher and playwright who converted to Roman Catholicism in 1929, Marcel sought to address the issues of existentialism as a Christian. His philosophy in such works as Metaphysical Journal (1927) and Being and Having (1935) is written in journal form. In the latter work, Marcel distinguishes between the two ways of encountering the world: as object, something we can have, and as subject, something that we are. The pre-eminent example is one's own body, which can either be possessed as an object or lived as a being. Marcel also developed the distinction between problem and mystery.
   A problem is rooted in an object that stands before one, requiring reduction and ultimate elimination through technique, while a mystery is an inexplicable and ineliminable reality within which an individual personally participates. Marcel castigated other existentialists for their bleak perspectives, and sought to demonstrate the centrality of God to each moment in the lives we are given. His sober but optimistic philosophical work carries through into his plays, e.g. The Broken World. Marcel delivered the Gifford Lectures in 1949-50, later published as The Mystery of Being.
   See existentialism
   Further reading: Lapointe and Lapointe 1977; Marcel 1965 and 2001; Moran 1992

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