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In an essay entitled "La Rencontre avec le mal, tt Gabriel Marcel points out that the majority of philosophers who wrote about the subject of evil in the past, with the exception of Kant, with his notion of radical evil, and of Schelling with his research on the essence of human freedom were quite powerless to deal with it, for they substituted the concept of evil for its reality. What they spoke about was, in fact, the "problem of evil." In his essay, Gabriel Marcel proposes to deal instead, with our concrete encounter with evil, that is the mystery of evil.1 If we recall the distinction which Marcel makes in Being and Having between problem and mystery, we can begin to decipher the difference between his approach and that of the philosophers who speak about the ''problem of evil." In that work he explains that a problem is something in front of me in which I am not involved. It is something which I objectify, that is, make into an object or into an abstraction. A mystery, on the other hand, is something in which I, as a subject, am concretely involved, together with other subjects. I cannot abstract from it without changing its nature (I, 117). It is certainly with that distinction in mind that Marcel used to invite those of his students who had presented papers on a particular ethical problem, to proceed to dramatize it, that is to irnagine the concrete situation of a particular human being encountering the kind of problem thay had discussed in their papers. It was only in this way, he told them, that they could know whether they were speaking about abstract notions or dealing with reality.(VI, 194-195). Throughout "La Rencontre avec le mal," Gabriel Marcel does exactly what he had suggested to his students. He refers to various dramatic situations of persons encountering evil, and he shows that, in spite of the fact that it is diffuse (coming both fronl without and from within), and that it is mostly hiddenand treacherous, evil is very concrete, and a rnystery (VI, 196-7). But, it is in two of his plays, Le Chemin de

Concrete Encounter with Evil in Gabriel Marcel's Drama