Marcel holds that it is our fundamental situation in the world which defines our "ideas". Any analysis or description must involve a reference to a human body and it's place in existence. Descartes describes a "spectator view" of the self. According to Marcel, Descartes also mistakenly made conceptual knowledge the paradigm of knowledge. — anonymous66
This realm is best described as being mysterious from a philosophical point of view because it cannot be presented in ordinary conceptual knowledge. It must be experienced to be fully known. — anonymous66
Marcel sometimes referred to the modern world as a "broken world" because we are losing the ability of availability, and transcendence. — anonymous66
(Sartre's Second or Dialectical Ethics)Twenty years after the publication of his 1943 phenomenological ontology, in 1964, Sartre presented a public lecture in Rome in which he set out at some length what he later called his second ethics. — Thomas Anderson
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