The Revolt of Unreason

Miguel de Unamuno and Antonio Caso on the Crisis of Modernity
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-420-3550-8
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 253, 197 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 345 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Philosophy in Spain

This book examines solutions to the crisis of modernity proposed by the Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno and the Mexican philosopher Antonio Caso. Acceptance of the objective claims of modern scientific rationality and the consequent rejection of the objective validity of artistic, moral, and religious claims generates the crisis of modernity. The problem is that of justifying artistic, moral, and religious claims. Miguel de Unamuno in his classic work, The Tragic Sense of Life, addresses the conflict between the belief in personal immortality and modern scientific rationality. Holding that there is no rational justification for the belief in immortality, Unamuno finds a solution in a “saving scepticism” to act “as if” he deserved immortality. In his book Existence as Economy, as Art, and Charity Caso attempts to create an aposteriori metaphysics based on the “current” results of science supplemented by the intuitions of art and morality. In doing so, Caso believes that he has enlarged the scope of the knowable to include objects of art, morality, and religion. Unamuno, by accepting the strict line of demarcation between faith and reason has no other recourse but to turn to decisionism. By turning to intuitionism, Caso believes that he has blurred the line of demarcation. Decisionism and intuitionism, therefore, are worthy of further exploration.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 19. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editorial Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Miguel de Unamuno
Philosopher of Spiritual Innards
Consciousness and Life: ¿Para Qué?
The Longing for Immortality and Pascal’s Doubt
Failed Solutions and Dissolutions
The Way Out: A Quixotic Basis for Practical Ethics
Conclusion
Egoism and Sacrifice: The Existentialism of Antonio Caso
Toward an Anti-Positivist Philosophy
Making Way for a Metaphysics of Morality
Existence as Economy, as Art, and as Morality
From Psychological Egoism to Moral Altruism
Conclusion
Coda: Variations of the Modern Problem
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
Index