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...philosopher worthy of the name," Marcel asserted, refuses to submit to the negative attitudes and disillusionments which constantly confront him. He clings to his capacity for wonderment "despite everything surrounding him, and even within him, that tends to dispel...
...Marcel, who is known as a dramatist, musician, and literary critic as well as a philosopher, pointed especially to the danger of "agnostic resignation . . . , which can effect the vividness of a philosopher's original aspirations like a kind of atmospheric blight...
...this attitude, Marcel claimed, conflicts with the philosopher's "demand for intelligibility." As early as the Greek philosophers, he saw "a need to clarify the nature of the act of comprehension, and to discover . . . how what we call reality lends itself to comprehension, and within what limits...
...Marcel described his own philosophical work as a continuing "research" process. Beginning before World War I, he said, "the notion of research compelled my attention, a type of research that should remain no less inquiring as it progresses and becomes more enlightening...
This research, Marcel said, does not seek to set up propositions which must be recognized as true, but rather to discover the mental processes by which such propositions are reached...