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!

Perennial philosophy is a term of Aquinas? And is memory necessary for consciousness to be immortal or to be "conserved"?

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

I would rather hear about, what Jesus is like, how he thought, and depth of that conversation. We each have our own philosophy.

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But Jesus sent out those people INSTEAD of Himself : Jesus Sends out the Seventy‐two Luke 10:1‐24