Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973), who was born and died in Paris, was one of the leading Christian existentialists of the twentieth century. Two of his ideas that I find fascinating are his notion of the broken world, and the distinction between a problem and a mystery. Continue reading Gabriel Marcel on the broken world, problems, and mysteries
I was re-reading a small part of Miguel de Unamuno‘s, Tragic Sense of Life (1910) when I came across these haunting lines: Continue reading Unamuno’s, The Tragic Sense of Life
Jean Piaget (1896 – 1980) was one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century and a scholar of philosophy, psychology, and biology. Continue reading Jean Piaget: The Insights and Illusions of Philosophy