Word: unamuno
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Miguel de Unamuno, a brilliant man with flashing eyes who wrote novels, plays and poems, was long considered, with Ortega y Gasset, Spain's most influential philosopher. In 1901 he became rector of the nation's oldest university, and under him, Salamanca began to recapture some of the glory it had known in the days of Students Cervantes, Cortes and Ignatius of Loyola. This year, when Salamanca began laying plans to celebrate its 700th anniversary, it naturally included a solemn tribute to its great rector...
Deserve to Be Immortal. In his 72 years of life (he died in 1936), Miguel de Unamuno was forever in trouble. A fiery liberal, he was once exiled by Primo de Rivera, accused Alfonso XIII of being "unfit" to govern, attacked the republic and the rebels in turn, was finally dismissed by Franco. Though passionately religious, he could find no proof in logic for the immortality of the soul, felt that the only thing man could do was to "spend your life so that you deserve to be immortal." To some segments of official Spain, Unamuno was a heretic...
...younger generation of philosophers, Santayana did not appear to be dealing with philosophical questions, and indeed there are no Spanish philosophers and never have been. But there have been a number of distinguished essayists, unsystematic, highly individual intermediaries between personal agony and philosophy: writers like Unamuno and, later, Ortega y Gasset. To this group of brilliant egoists Santayana really belongs. His real excellence lay in literature. He was a good minor poet of the severe kind, and understood, quite well, that he had been torn away in childhood from the sources of passion which feed great poetry...
...implies that the pursuit of happiness loses measure, just as optimism loses reality, if neither is aware of what Wordsworth called "the still sad music of humanity." And he gives a discipline of mind and a structure of meaning to the tragic cry of Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno: "A Miserere sung in a cathedral by a multitude tormented by destiny has as much value as a philosophy...
...there any bypassing God. For, while men may try to forget or deny God, they cannot forget what Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno called "the God-ache." Implicit or explicit in all Kafka's work, the source of his religious rage, his drama, irony, despair and compassion, is this incompatibility, this eternal misunderstanding of God by man-the inability of man to grasp, by limited human standards, the standards of divine Justice or divine Grace...