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Tragic Sense of Life
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To the mentality that assumes, more or less consciously, that we must of necessity find a solution to every problem, belongs the argument based on the disastrous consequences of a thing. Take any book of apologetics-that is to say, of theological advocacy-and you will see how many times you will meet with this phrase-"the disastrous consequences of this doctrine." Now the disastrous consequences of a doctrine prove at most that the doctrine is disastrous, but not that it is false, for there is no proof that the true is necessarily that which suits us best. -from "The Rationalist Dissolution" This is the masterpiece of Miguel de Unamuno, a member of the group of Spanish intellectuals and philosophers known as the "Generation of '98, " and a writer whose work dramatically influenced a wide range of 20th-century literature. His down-to-earth demeanor and no-nonsense outlook makes this 1921 book a favorite of intellectuals to this day, a practical, sensible discussion of the war between faith and reason that consumed the twentieth century and continues to rage in the twenty-first century. de Unamuno's philosophy is not the stuff of a rarefied realm but an integral part of fleshly, sensual life, metaphysics that speaks to daily living and the real world.
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Table of contents
- INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
- I THE MAN OF FLESH AND BONE
- II THE STARTING-POINT
- III THE HUNGER OF IMMORTALITY
- IV THE ESSENCE OF CATHOLICISM
- V THE RATIONALIST DISSOLUTION
- VI IN THE DEPTHS OF THE ABYSS
- VII LOVE, SUFFERING, PITY, AND PERSONALITY
- VIII FROM GOD TO GOD
- IX FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY
- X RELIGION, THE MYTHOLOGY OF THE BEYOND AND THE APOCATASTASIS
- XI THE PRACTICAL PROBLEM
- CONCLUSION DON QUIXOTE IN THE CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN TRAGI-COMEDY