Ostateczne perspektywy ludzkiego bytu w ujęciu Gabriela Marcela

Abstract

The problems of death and immorality in the philosophy of G. Marcel are linked with the analysis of a concerte existence, particularly of the spiritual acts of man, i.e., faith, hope, love and creative faitfulness. In Marcel's view man is the embodied self which incessantly transcends its own materiality. In the ontic structures of the human being there is an „ontological requirement” to be opened to a categorial „you”, and, ultimately, to the transcendent „You”, which makes the being complete. God is the source of man's spiritual acts which man performs while living on earth. He is also an „ontological counterbalance to death”, as it were, a warrant of the presence which lasts until death. At the moment of death the most perfect act of man finds its fulfilment, that is love. Only such conception of the ultimate perspective of man is, according to Marcel, a warrant of the sense of life values to which man serves.