“Suffering is the path of consciousness.” On the Metaphysics of Suffering in Miguel de Unamuno’s Late Philosophy

Krzysztof POLIT

Zakład Etyki, Instytut Filozofii, Wydział Filozofii i Socjologii, Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, pl. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej 4/334, 20-031 Lublin, Poland , Poland



Abstract

The article analyzes the phenomenon of suffering in the late philosophy of Miguel de Unamuno. The mature form of philosophical views of this Spanish intellectual is rightly put in the line of existential philosophy. Their central point is the human being: the being endowed with awareness of oneself and the world. The text shows how, according to de Unamuno, consciousness is born of suffering, what the sources of suffering are, and why suffering is necessarily connected to the condition of the human being. The author also attempts to answer the question of whether Miguel de Unamuno’s philosophy of suffering can be counted among the currents of Christian philosophy.

Keywords:

suffering, Spanish philosophy, Miguel de Unamuno, existentialism, individual


Published
2020-01-12


POLIT, K. (2020). „Cierpienie jest drogą świadomości”. O metafizyce cierpienia w późnej filozofii Miguela de Unamuno. Ethos. Quarterly of The John Paul II Institute at the Catholic University of Lublin, 30(4 (120). Retrieved from https://czasopisma.kul.pl/index.php/ethos/article/view/5160

Krzysztof POLIT 
Zakład Etyki, Instytut Filozofii, Wydział Filozofii i Socjologii, Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej, pl. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej 4/334, 20-031 Lublin, Poland