Tragic Sense of Life - Brossura

Unamuno, Miguel De

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0486202577 ISBN 13: 9780486202570

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 1976

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The acknowledged masterpiece of one of Spain's most influential thinkers. Between despair and the desire for something better, Unamuno finds that "saving incertitude" that alone can console us. Dynamic appraisal of man's faith in God and in himself.

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INTRODUCTORY ESSAY AUTHORS PREFACE I THE MAN OF FLESH AND BONE Philososphy and the concrete man "The man Kant, the man Butler, and the man Spinoza" Unity and continuity of the person Man an end not a means Intellectual necessities and necessities of the heart and the will Tragic sense of life in men and in peoples II THE STARTING POINT Tragedy of Paradise Disease and element of progress Necessity of knowing in order to live Instinct of preservation and instinct of perpetuation The sensible world and the ideal world Practical starting-point of all philosophy--Knowledge an end in itself? The man Descartes The longing not to die III THE HUNGER OF IMMORTALITY Thirst of being Cult of immortality "Plato's "glorious risk" Materialism Paul's discourse to the Athenians Intolerance of the intellectuals Craving for fame Struggle for survival IV THE ESSENCE OF CATHOLICISM Immortality and resurrection Development of idea of immortality in Judaic and Hellenic religions Paul and the dogma of the resurrection Athanasius Sacrament of the Eucharist Lutheranism The Catholic ethic Scholasticism The Catholic solution V THE RATIONALIST DISSOLUTION Materialism Concept of substance Substantiality of the soul Berkeley Myers Spencer Combat of life with reason Theological advocacy Odium anti-theologicum The rationalist attitude Spinoza Nietzsche Truth and consolation VI IN THE DEPTHS OF THE ABYSS Passionate doubt and Cartesian doubt Irrationality of the problem of immortality Will and intelligence Vitalism and rationalism Uncertainty as basis of faith The ethic of despair Pragmatical justification of despair Summary of preceding criticism VII "LOVE, SUFFERING, PITY, AND PERSONALITY" Sexual love Spiritual love Tragic love Love and pity Personalizing faculty of love God the Personalization of the All Anthropomorphic tendency Consciousness of the Universe What is Truth ? Finality of the Universe VIII FROM GOD TO GOD Concept and feeling of Divinity Pantheism Monotheism The rational God Proofs of God's existence Law of necessity Argument from Consensus genlium The living God Individuality and personality God a multiplicity The God of Reason The God of Love Existance of God IX "FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY" Personal element in faith Creative power of faith Wishing that God may exist Hope the form of faith Love and suffering The suffering God Consciousness revealed through suffering Spiritualization of Matter X "RELIGION, THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE BEYOND, AND THE APOCATASTASIS" What is religion ? The longing for immortality Concrete representation of a future life Beatific vision St. Teresa Delight requisite for happiness Degradation of energy Apocatastasis Climax of the tragedy Mystery of the Beyond XI THE PRACTICAL PROBLEM Conflict as basis of conduct Injustice of annihilation Making ourselves irreplaceable Religious value of the civil occupation Business of religion and religion of business Ethic of domination Ethic of the cloister Passion and culture The Spanish soul CONCLUSION DON QUIXOTE IN THE CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN TRAGI-COMEDY Culture Faust The modern Inquisition Spain and the scientific spirit Cultural achievement of Spain Thought and language Don Quixote the hero of Spanish thought Religion a transcendental economy Tragic ridicule Quixotesque philosophy Mission of Don Quixote to-day

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Book by Unamuno Miguel de

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• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0486202577
• ISBN 13: 9780486202570
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 367