Gabriel Marcel Concept Of Love

GABRIEL MARCEL
INTRODUCTION

I took a book on Gabriel Marcel who stands as a unique figure among the twentieth-century philosophers. In this book I read on Gabriel Marcel concepts on “love”. For Marcel love is the paradigm of communion. He considers love as “the essential ontological datum,” the starting point for his concrete approach to the ontological mystery. His consideration of love we can understand from one of his quotes “to say that one loves a being means, ‘Thou, at least, thou shall not die.’” Marcel says: “Love in so far as distinct from desire or as opposed to desire, love treated as the subordinate of the self to a superior reality, a reality at my deepest level more truly me than I am myself - love as the breaking of the tension

If beloved is indestructible then love is affirmed. For Marcel love is a particular quality. Love by which one gives oneself to that surrounding world. If love doesn’t come first, we will simply loss the necessary. By love Marcel does not mean some easy fondness or feelings rather a radical nature which acknowledges a higher reality and moves the individual to inferior him to it. We found the wholeness of being and the Divine in richness and mystery. Love asks ones disposal to the other. Hereby one fully becomes

But this point of view for someone who has never ever taste love or shared love, when they look as a spectator to my love they find it as absurd or silly. The close look at Marcel’s approach will help us to know that certain human phenomena like love hope and fidelity can only understand only when they are accepted as important experiences for the understanding of human being. Marcel considers love as something concrete which even erosions of time and death cannot destroy. He says: “The questions turns upon our knowing whether the inevitable erosions of time and death can never ever destroy that by which this being we love is truly a being.” Obviously Marcel tries to say that value that we give for ones we love can never be lost by time and death. I think death cannot stop us to love our dear ones. We have witnessed many time widows who still lives nourishing the memorable days with her husband. This obviously shows that death is not a limit in every sense; it is limit only at physical