Tragic Sense of Life

Tragic Sense of Life

Tragic Sense of Life

Tragic Sense of Life

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Overview

I intended at first to write a short Prologue to this English translation of my Del Sentimiento Trágico de la Vida, which has been undertaken by my friend Mr. J.E. Crawford Flitch. But upon further consideration I have abandoned the idea, for I reflected that after all I wrote this book not for Spaniards only, but for all civilized and Christian men-Christian in particular, whether consciously so or not-of whatever country they may be. Furthermore, if I were to set about writing an Introduction in the light of all that we see and feel now, after the Great War, and, still more, of what we foresee and forefeel, I should be led into writing yet another book. And that is a thing to be done with deliberation and only after having better digested this terrible peace, which is nothing else but the war's painful convalescence. As for many years my spirit has been nourished upon the very core of English literature-evidence of which the reader may discover in the following pages-the translator, in putting my Sentimiento Trágico into English, has merely converted not a few of the thoughts and feelings therein expressed back into their original form of expression. Or retranslated them, perhaps. Whereby they emerge other than they originally were, for an idea does not pass from one language to another without change. The fact that this English translation has been carefully revised here, in my house in this ancient city of Salamanca, by the translator and myself, implies not merely some guarantee of exactitude, but also something more-namely, a correction, in certain respects, of the original. The truth is that, being an incorrigible Spaniard, I am naturally given to a kind of extemporization and to neglectfulness of a filed niceness in my works. For this reason my original work-and likewise the Italian and French translations of it-issued from the press with a certain number of errors, obscurities, and faulty references. The labour which my friend Mr. J.E. Crawford Flitch fortunately imposed upon me in making me revise his translation obliged me to correct these errors, to clarify some obscurities, and to give greater exactitude to certain quotations from foreign writers. Hence this English translation of my Sentimiento Trágico presents in some ways a more purged and correct text than that of the original Spanish. This perhaps compensates for what it may lose in the spontaneity of my Spanish thought, which at times, I believe, is scarcely translatable. It would advantage me greatly if this translation, in opening up to me a public of English-speaking readers, should some day lead to my writing something addressed to and concerned with this public. For just as a new friend enriches our spirit, not so much by what he gives us of himself, as by what he causes us to discover in our own selves, something which, if we had never known him, would have lain in us undeveloped, so it is with a new public. Perhaps there may be regions in my own Spanish spirit-my Basque spirit, and therefore doubly Spanish-unexplored by myself, some corner hitherto uncultivated, which I should have to cultivate in order to offer the flowers and fruits of it to the peoples of English speech. And now, no more. God give my English readers that inextinguishable thirst for truth which I desire for myself.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781544839646
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 03/22/2017
Pages: 294
Sales rank: 261,386
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.66(d)

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
AUTHORS PREFACE
I THE MAN OF FLESH AND BONE
    Philososphy 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 and 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 of immortality in Judaic and Hellenic religions
    Paul and the dogma of the resurrection
    Athanasius
    Sacrament of the Eucharist
    Lutheranism
    The Catholic ethic
    Scholasticism
    The Catholic solution
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
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
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
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 genlium
    The living God
    Individuality and personality
    God a multiplicity
    The God of Reason
    The God of Love
    Existance of God
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
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. Teresa
    Delight requisite for happiness
    Degradation of energy
    Apocatastasis
    Climax of the tragedy
    Mystery of the Beyond
XI THE PRACTICAL PROBLEM
    Conflict as basis of conduct
    Injustice of annihilation
    Making ourselves irreplaceable
    Religious value of the civil occupation
    Business of religion and religion of business
    Ethic of domination
    Ethic of the cloister
    Passion and culture
    The Spanish soul
  CONCLUSION DON QUIXOTE IN THE CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN TRAGI-COMEDY
    Culture
    Faust
    The modern Inquisition
    Spain and the scientific spirit
    Cultural achievement of Spain
    Thought and language
    Don Quixote the hero of Spanish thought
    Religion a transcendental economy
    Tragic ridicule
    Quixotesque philosophy
    Mission of Don Quixote to-day
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