Ep. 334: Gabriel Marcel's Christian Existentialism (Part One)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

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🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Discussing "On the Ontological Mystery" (1933) about our need for meaning. Marcel asserts that our need for "mystery" is much more primal than the scientific, technical point of view that breaks down problems into component parts for easy analysis. In fact, this more modern-seeming way of looking at the world presupposes and relies on the more originary position.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the partially examined life a podcast by some guys who at one point
0:11.3	set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better
0:13.6	bit. Our question for episode 334 is something like, do we need life to have a meaning? Or maybe
0:20.1	what justifies faith? And we Gabriel Marcell's 1933 essay on the ontological
0:26.3	mystery.
0:27.7	More information about the text and the podcast please see Partially Examine Life.
0:31.4	com. This is Mark Linson Meyer encroaching on my own data in Madison, Wisconsin.
0:35.9	This is Seth Paskin and the essential standpoint of being that is presupposed by epistemology in Austin, Texas.
0:42.4	This is West Holland more than a conglomerate. by epistemology in Austin, Texas.
0:42.8	This is West Holland, more than an agglomeration of functions
0:46.0	in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
0:47.8	This is Dylan Casey giving hope a chance
0:50.2	in Madison, Wisconsin.
0:52.0	And I know West just had COVID.
0:53.6	Seth, you don't sound so great either.
0:54.9	What's going on?
0:56.3	Oh, not illness.
0:58.2	Okay.
0:59.2	I had a couple of margaritas last night, so maybe that's it. We are recording at 9 a.m. Central time. I was
1:06.6	looking for some something that would be self-contained, just some author that we
1:10.8	had not hit before and Marcel was suggested to me by Fear and
1:16.7	troubling that we just did that I knew Marcel is sort of known as a Christian
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