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Gabriel Marcel Philosopher

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: France
  • Born: Dec 7, 1889
  • Died: Oct 8, 1973

Gabriel Honoré Marcel was 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.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them. wisdom

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of. music