Mataphysics as a Secondary Reflection on Mysteries as Viewel by Gabriel Marcels

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From Marcel's point of view, since philosophical issues such as existence and free will belong to the realm of mystery rather than problem, metaphysics is a matter of meditation on mysteries which are considered through secondary reflection. Gabriel Marcels believes that the metaphysicians have made the mistake of trying to put forward philosophical issues which are of the sort of mystery as problems and to solve them through reasoning. He holds that as long as mysteries aren't solveable, they have gone the wrong way and so failed. From Marcel's point of view, since philosophical issues such as existence and free will belong to the realm of mystery rather than problem, metaphysics is a matter of meditation on mysteries which are considered through secondary reflection. Gabriel Marcels believes that the metaphysicians have made the mistake of trying to put forward philosophical issues which are of the sort of mystery as problems and to solve them through reasoning. He holds that as long as mysteries aren't solveable, they have gone the wrong way and so failed.

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