Tragic sense of life

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TRAGIC SENSE OF LIFE
by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO
This volume is the acknowledged masterpiece of Miguel de Una-muno, who shares with Ortega y Gasset the distinction of being Spain's most influential philosopher. Here, the reader will find the inner contradictions of a modern human being set down with great respect for truth.
Unamuno builds up his theory of life from an inner deadlock involving faith and reason. In Tragic Sense of Life, he makes a strong plea for passion over rationality, heart over head, faith over reason. Madariaga points out, in his preface, that Unamuno finds the basis for his belief—or rather for his efEort to believe—in the survival of a will to live. "Self-compassion leads to self-love, and this self-love, founded as it is on a universal conflict, widens into love of all that lives and therefore wants to survive. So, by an act of love, springing from our own hunger for immortality, we are led to give a conscience to the Universe—that is, to create God."
Unamuno... Tovább

Fülszöveg

TRAGIC SENSE OF LIFE
by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO
This volume is the acknowledged masterpiece of Miguel de Una-muno, who shares with Ortega y Gasset the distinction of being Spain's most influential philosopher. Here, the reader will find the inner contradictions of a modern human being set down with great respect for truth.
Unamuno builds up his theory of life from an inner deadlock involving faith and reason. In Tragic Sense of Life, he makes a strong plea for passion over rationality, heart over head, faith over reason. Madariaga points out, in his preface, that Unamuno finds the basis for his belief—or rather for his efEort to believe—in the survival of a will to live. "Self-compassion leads to self-love, and this self-love, founded as it is on a universal conflict, widens into love of all that lives and therefore wants to survive. So, by an act of love, springing from our own hunger for immortality, we are led to give a conscience to the Universe—that is, to create God."
Unamuno is in the tradition of the great Spanish saints and mystics who devoted their lives to exploring the kingdoms of faith. Tragic Sense of Life is a "direct expression of the strife between the truth thought and the truth felt."
"Masterfully written, with the author's strong personality emerging from every page," New Haven Journal-Courier. "A great Spanish classic," World Alliance Neivsletter. "The pubhshers have done a great service," Modern Schoolman.
Translation by J. E. Crawford Flitch. Index. Introduction by Salvador de Madariaga. 332 pages. 5% x 8. 20257-7 Paperbound $2.50
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