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How did Gabriel Marcel describe the source of absolute hope in Homo Viator?
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Gabriel Marcel
Gabriel Marcel, 1951.
In his work Homo Viator, the French philosopher Gabriel Marcel describes absolute hope as a response from the creature to an infinite Being. He emphasizes that this hope springs from the individual's consciousness of owing everything they possess to this Being, upon whom the creature cannot impose any conditions whatsoever.1