Gabriel Marcel
Gabriel Marcel
Gabriel Honoré Marcelwas a French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist. The author of over a dozen books and at least thirty plays, Marcel's work focused on the modern individual's struggle in a technologically dehumanizing society. Though often regarded as the first French existentialist, he dissociated himself from figures such as Jean-Paul Sartre, preferring the term 'Philosophy of Existence' to define his own thought. The Mystery of Being is a well-known two-volume work authored by Marcel...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth7 December 1889
CountryFrance
Gabriel Marcel quotes about
But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.
Metaphysics is a science.
But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.