“So that your sons might be better.” Ramiro de Maeztu y Witney on the Crisis of Humanism
Krzysztof POLIT
Department of Ethics, Institute of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, pl. Marii Curies-Skłodowskiej 4/334, 20-031 Lublin, Poland , PolandAbstract
The purpose of the present article is to analyze the arguments included in The Crisis of Humanism, a work by Ramiro de Maeztu y Witney, a Spanish thinker, whose output has not been researched by Polish scholars yet. Written in 1919, the text is an attempt to draw conclusions from the events of the First World War. Maeztu holds that the cause of the tragedy of war lies in the falsity of the belief in the natural goodness of human nature. He believes that the view he criticizes is an inheritance from the epochs of the Renaissance and the Romanticism. According to Maeztu, a human being is only able to do good, but one cannot infer the goodness of his nature from his good deeds.
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Ramiro de Maeztu, Spanish philosophy, human nature, crisis of humanism.POLIT, K. (2020). „Żeby wasi synowie byli lepsi”. O kryzysie humanizmu w filozofii Ramiro de Maeztu y Witneya. Ethos. Quarterly of The John Paul II Institute at the Catholic University of Lublin, 28(1 (109). https://doi.org/10.12887/28-2015-1-109-17
Krzysztof POLIT
Department of Ethics, Institute of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, pl. Marii Curies-Skłodowskiej 4/334, 20-031 Lublin, Poland
Department of Ethics, Institute of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, pl. Marii Curies-Skłodowskiej 4/334, 20-031 Lublin, Poland
