The mystery of the incarnation in Gabriel Marcel

Abstract

Since the context of a critique of modern scientism and rationalism, presenting with an unsystematic thinking, questioning and wandering, Gabriel Marcel says that philosophy has an arche: the existence of starting point and reference labor philosophicus. From the question Who am I? comes to the perception of life (incarnation), which leads us necessarily to an ontological question (mystery of being) and this, in turn, according to Marcel, reminds us of the transcendent issue (the existence and transcendence). The Incarnation, according to Marcel, is the central finding of metaphysics, it is the mediation between self and world and others, is the consciousness of myself in my body and, therefore, crossed an intense ontological communion (participation). The embodied existence thus requires, first, the question of being, which leads Marcel to distinguish in relation ontological mystery and problem. In the experience of mystery, the human being has some requirements: collection, engagement, fidelity, hope and love. The experience of the mystery of being pervaded by the communion between my self and others, leads to the assertion of a Absolute: transcendence. Thus, the mystery of the Incarnation, therefore, establishes, in the philosophical tradition, a new order of questioning the man and the world.