Fresh Hope For The World: Moral Re-Armament in Action by Gabriel Marcel

Fresh Hope For The World: Moral Re-Armament in Action

EDITED AND INTRODUCED BY

GABRIEL MARCEL

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY

HELEN HARDINGE

First published in France in 1958 by Librairie Plon, under the title 'Un Changement d'Espérance à la Rencontre du Réarmement Moral'

This edition first published 1960.

Fresh Hope For The World

"This is the sum of all our hopes," say survivors of Hiroshima; "Here indeed is the way for nations to live in peace," writes a former German Communist; "In this direction lies the future of our continent," is the claim of young Africans. These are the sort of comments to be heard today on the activities of Moral Re-Armament. The present book does not lay down principles, or proclaim a doctrine: it simply brings together the experiences of a large number of people.

M. Gabriel Marcel, the well-known French philosopher, Catholic, and Member of the Institut Français, asks us to listen first to his own reasons for his—to some people surprising support of this work, and then to the stories of such different people as a Comintern delegate, a Brazilian docker, an African tribal chieftain, a Japanese pilot of "suicide torpedoes", a militant socialist Frenchwoman, a Buddhist abbot, a Canadian industrialist, and a Nigerian political agita-tor. What is it that these widely different people have found which has completely altered their lives? Why do these human beings, living such distances apart from one another, all join together supporting the ideals of Moral Re-Armament?

Why also should a Prime Minister of Japan or a President of the Philippines give their personal guarantee to Moral Re-Armament, thus demonstrating their belief that it is only by restoring human values that one can hope to solve political problems?

How does this force, this complete change of outlook and renewal of hope, break through men's individual lives into the sphere of politics and affect the destinies of nations? These are all questions which this book sets out to answer. It is written by people with the conviction that what lies deepest in man is common to all peoples.“

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About the Author:

Gabriel Marcel hardly needs introduction: one of France's leading philosophers and a Catholic, his association with the school of Heidegger and Sartre has led him to a philosophy of "Christian Existential-ism." He is also famous in France as a playwright and dramatic critic. The central concern of all M. Marcel's writings is the predicament of man today. It is in the light of this concern that he wrote of Moral Re-Armament in Figaro, "It is a hope. It is, perhaps, the Hope."

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