Tragic Sense of Life is one of the most outstanding philosophical essays of Miguel de Unamuno. Under the influence of Søren Kierkegaard and of Saint Ignacio de Loyola, among others, author made a deep foray into the existential problems of contemporary man, radically distancing himself from the Aristotelian prime mover and affirming the spiritual need to believe in a personal God.
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Мигель де Унамуно. Tragic Sense of Life (Philosophy Classic)
Tragic Sense of Life (Philosophy Classic)
Table of Contents
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
I. THE MAN OF FLESH AND BONE
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II. THE STARTING-POINT
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III. THE HUNGER OF IMMORTALITY
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IV. THE ESSENCE OF CATHOLICISM
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V. THE RATIONALIST DISSOLUTION
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VI. IN THE DEPTHS OF THE ABYSS
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VII. LOVE, SUFFERING, PITY, AND PERSONALITY
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VIII. FROM GOD TO GOD
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IX. FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY
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X. RELIGION, THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE BEYOND AND THE APOCATASTASIS
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XI. THE PRACTICAL PROBLEM
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CONCLUSION
DON QUIXOTE IN THE CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN TRAGI-COMEDY
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Miguel de Unamuno
Philosophical Classic
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Man is an end, not a means. All civilization addresses itself to man, to each man, to each I. What is that idol, call it Humanity or call it what you like, to which all men and each individual man must be sacrificed? For I sacrifice myself for my neighbours, for my fellow-countrymen, for my children, and these sacrifice themselves in their turn for theirs, and theirs again for those that come after them, and so on in a never-ending series of generations. And who receives the fruit of this sacrifice?
Those who talk to us about this fantastic sacrifice, this dedication without an object, are wont to talk to us also about the right to live. What is this right to live? They tell me I am here to realize I know not what social end; but I feel that I, like each one of my fellows, am here to realize myself, to live.
