W Tobie – naszą. Esej o Marcelowskiej fenomenologii nadziei

• Authors: Zalewski Wojciech

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In you, our. an essay on Marcel’s phenomenology of hope

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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This essay focuses on Gabriel Marcel's original existential phenomenology of hope. However, the text, as an essay, is not just a historical-philosophical reconstruction of the French thinker's views, but an attempt at an independent, personal search for the transcendent basis of human hope. I argue that the “object” of hope is interpersonal love. Love, taken in Marcel's methodological distinction as a mystery rather than a problem, seeks fulfillment in vertical transcendence. The reason is that the loving individual (I), confronting in his life the multidimensional forms of evil ultimately associated with the death of his loved ones (You), does not allow the thought that the last word may belong to death... On the contrary, the essence of hope, or, using the language of classical phenomenology, its eidos, is the “overcoming of death.” Marcel's “definition” of love is: “To love a being is to say you, you in particular, will never die”. Hence, hope, concerned with such maximalistically understood Love, directly associates it with God. Therefore, the loving subject hopes that the Absolute You - the concretized, “named” transcendence - constitutes an interpersonal, intersubjective universum, inseparable from the individual relationship between I and You.

Keywords

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essay; hope; love; you; god; death; freedom

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Umiejętności / Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Kwartalnik Filozoficzny
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 52
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 49-71

Contributors

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Zalewski Wojciech

• Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Instytut Filozofii, ul. Grodzka 52, 31 - 044 Kraków, Poland