The Concept of Person in Miguel de Unamuno’s “Del sentimiento trágico de la vida”

by | 139-2010

This research is about the different uses of the word “person” that could be found in Unamuno´s masterpiece “Del sentimiento trágico de la vida”. As a result, we obtain a definition of person related to the difference between “person” and “individual”, the attributes of the person (particularity, will, consciousness, subjectivity, life, community, pain, purpose and immortality), and the most important relationship modes which are faith and love. It also outlines a way to acces God, who is thought as a person as well

From Ortega to Marias, around Education of the emotions

by | 147-2014

This brief essay attempts to show Julian Marias´ perspective on feelings education following the traces of his most direct philosophical influences: Ortega and Unamuno. It emphasizes the significance that Julian Marias gives to this topic, as this area of education is considered as a modulation of the vital instalation or, as he says in spanish, a modulation of the “temple”. The keys of this proposal are displayed and synthesized, and among them should be specially considered concepts as friendship or love, this last one are understood by Marias as donation to the others