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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
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CONTENTS
PAGES
INTRODUCTORY ESSAY xi-xxxii
AUTHOR'S PREFACE xxxiii-xxxv
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 1-18
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 19-37
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 38-57
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--Modernism--The Catholic
ethic--Scholasticism--The Catholic solution 58-78
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
79-105
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 106-131
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 132-155
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 gentium_--The living God--Individuality and
personality--God a multiplicity--The God of Reason--The God of
Love--Existence of God 156-185
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 186-215
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.
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