: Tragic Sense Of Life by Unamuno Miguel De Flitch J E Crawford John Ernest Crawford Translator - Faith and reason Christianity; Immortality Christianity; Tragic The Religious aspects Christianity

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PAGES INTRODUCTORY ESSAY xi-xxxii

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

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

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

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

THE RATIONALIST DISSOLUTION

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

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