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2	[[caption-width-right:436:"We are living in a world which seems to be founded on the refusal to reflect."]]
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4	->''"A [[UsefulNotes/{{Existentialism}} philosophy of this sort]] is carried by an irresistible movement towards the light which it perceives from afar and of which it suffers the secret attraction."''
5	-->-- '''Gabriel Marcel''', ''The Philosophy of Existence''
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7	Gabriel Honoré Marcel (7 December 1889 – 8 October 1973) was a French playwright, music critic, and philosopher. He is known to be one of the major figures of existentialism, but he dissociated himself from figures such as Creator/JeanPaulSartre, of whom he was a staunch critic, and preferred the term [[InsistentTerminology "philosophy of existence" or "neo-Socrateanism"]] to define his thought.
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9	Marcel was born in Paris, an only child to Henri-Camille "Henry" Marcel, a French diplomat, and Laure Meyer, a Jew and daughter of a banker. Laure died when Marcel was four, and he went on to be raised by his father and Berthe, his aunt and the sister of Laure; Henry would later marry Berthe. Henry, who was raised a Catholic but stopped practicing the faith in favour of agnosticism, raised Marcel without any religious upbringing.
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11	Marcel excelled in his studies, especially when philosophy was involved, and enrolled at the Sorbonne in 1907. There, he completed his diplôme d'études supérieures (roughly the equivalent of an MA thesis) and obtained the agrégation in philosophy from the Sorbonne in 1910, at the unusually young age of 20. Afterwards, he taught philosophy intermittently in Sens, Paris, and Montpellier, but his main professional occupations were that of a drama critic and editor.
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