Tag: Gabriel Marcel
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23. Being and its Discontents
In one of the first posts during my initial writing challenge, I made a sort of leap between the indubitability of our being, the fact that we can’t doubt our own existence, to talking about Being with-a-capital-B. Fearing that this leap might seem illegitimate to some, this post is intended to justify that leap, rather […]
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18. The Universe is not Meaningless, On Objective and Subjective Meaning
People hunger for meaning. We have a profound desire that life not be a “tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing.”* This can create a problem with the dominant world-view of our age, which is broadly atheistic/materialist, and thus tends to denude the world of meaning. Recognizing this as a […]
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4. Exhortation
Something I wrestle with a lot, often to the point of exhausted inaction, is communication. The problem when you’re dealing with ideas like Being-with-a-capital-B, the transcendent, etc. is precisely the capital B, the fact of transcendence. The transcendent, by definition, transcends us. It can’t be captured in words, concepts, and the like, because if it […]
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2. Existence
“I exist” is unique and indubitable, there is no possible rival belief. On top of this, we seem compelled to believe that others exist as well. We claim, at least some claim, we can doubt* this, but can we? We go on speaking regardless. More, what is the self without other selves? We come to […]
Dan Yingst 