The Tragic Sense of Life by Miguel de Unamuno is a philosophical essay. It explores the conflict between reason and the human longing for immortality, from which the tragic sense of life arises. It is worth listening to for its deeply personal and poetic reflection on faith, death, and the will to believe.
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TRAGIC SENSE OF LIFE MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO translator, J.E. CRAWFORD FLITCH DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC New York This Dover edition, first published in 1954, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the English translation originally published by Macmillan and Company, Ltd., in 1921. This edition is published by special arrangement with Macmillan and Company, Ltd. The publisher is grateful to the Library of the University of Pennsylvania for supplying a copy of this work for the purpose of reproduction. Standard Book Number: 486-20257-7 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 54-4730 Manufactured in the United States of America Dover Publications, Inc. 180 Varick Street New York, N.Y. 10014 CONTENTS
INTRODUCTORY ESSAY AUTHOR'S PREFACE I THE MAN OF FLESH AND BONE Philosophy 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 an 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
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