Jean-Luc Marion: Being

Jean-Luc Marion is French philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on being.

Jean-Luc Marion: 12 quotes0 likes

“Any access to something like "God," precisely because of the aim of Being as such, will have to determine him in advance as a being. The precomprehension of "God" as being is self-evident to the point of exhausting in advance "God" as a question.”

Jean-Luc Marion

Source: God Without Being (1982), p. 43

“What if God did not have first to be, since he loved us first, when we were not? And what if, to envisage him, we did not have to wait for him within the horizon of Being, but rather transgress ourselves in risking to love love.”

Jean-Luc Marion

Source: God Without Being (1982), p. 3

“The icon and the idol determine two manners of being for beings, not two classes of beings.”

Jean-Luc Marion

Source: God Without Being (1982), p. 8