Michael Healy presenting "Gabriel Marcel" during the Introduction to Personalism track of the Hildebrand Project's 2017 summer seminar: Retrieving Beauty.
Fight against spirit of abstraction Abstract back from concrete situations Vague abstraction and generalities Too vague and meaningless generalities Material for rhetorical arguments Wants to stay close to experience Highly cultured but not religious Communicated with imaginary companions in the absence of real friends Beauty > Despair & Suicide Concrete Existential Philosophy and Personalism Hope > Despair Meaning > Absurdity Doesn’t want to reduce it to mathematical equations Music is more like perfume than mathematics There’s much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of Availability - making yourself a gift
Egalitry Homo Viator Availability - aptitude to give oneself to anything which offers, not arbitrarily but which deserves Being vs Having True communion (personal decision) vs anthill - free gift on each side Problem vs Mystery - objective challenge with potentially a final answer; the person/thinker himself addressing the mystery that he’s part of, he has to live out and live through the mystery, doesn’t have a final universal solution Problem is to be solved, mystery is to be lived Technological utilitarian mass society - reducing the individual into functions and uses, thing to be manipulated than respected Philosophy of Gratitude, Hope and Communion Faith is not an irrational leap You can’t be just mud if you know you’re just mud The beloved must be more than the body which dies You have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die A transcendent ground beyond themselves, beyond time in eternity Consciousness of immortal destiny Creative fidelity vs dry acceptance of chains Dry commitment of the will Spiritual dryness
One can touch more than he can grasp Too allergic to system Cramp of resentment Image of atrophied and contradictory world No man’s land of universal inanity Dramatized form of vertigo Narcissism of Nothingness
Beautiful lecture! Gabriel Marcel was one of the great catalysts of the French philosophical revolution.
I think it is fair to say that Marcel's alternative to systems is wisdom.
Thank you so much for this!
Fight against spirit of abstraction
Abstract back from concrete situations
Vague abstraction and generalities
Too vague and meaningless generalities
Material for rhetorical arguments
Wants to stay close to experience
Highly cultured but not religious
Communicated with imaginary companions in the absence of real friends
Beauty > Despair & Suicide
Concrete Existential Philosophy and Personalism
Hope > Despair
Meaning > Absurdity
Doesn’t want to reduce it to mathematical equations
Music is more like perfume than mathematics
There’s much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of
Availability - making yourself a gift
Perennial philosophy is a term of Aquinas? And is memory necessary for consciousness to be immortal or to be "conserved"?
Egalitry Homo Viator
Availability - aptitude to give oneself to anything which offers, not arbitrarily but which deserves
Being vs Having
True communion (personal decision) vs anthill - free gift on each side
Problem vs Mystery - objective challenge with potentially a final answer; the person/thinker himself addressing the mystery that he’s part of, he has to live out and live through the mystery, doesn’t have a final universal solution
Problem is to be solved, mystery is to be lived
Technological utilitarian mass society - reducing the individual into functions and uses, thing to be manipulated than respected
Philosophy of Gratitude, Hope and Communion
Faith is not an irrational leap
You can’t be just mud if you know you’re just mud
The beloved must be more than the body which dies
You have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die
A transcendent ground beyond themselves, beyond time in eternity
Consciousness of immortal destiny
Creative fidelity vs dry acceptance of chains
Dry commitment of the will
Spiritual dryness
One can touch more than he can grasp
Too allergic to system
Cramp of resentment
Image of atrophied and contradictory world
No man’s land of universal inanity
Dramatized form of vertigo
Narcissism of Nothingness
I would rather hear about, what Jesus is like, how he thought, and depth of that conversation. We each have our own philosophy.
But Jesus sent out those people INSTEAD of Himself : Jesus Sends out the Seventy‐two
Luke 10:1‐24