El amor en el pensamiento de Miguel de Unamuno. Hacia una filosofía práctica como forma de vida

Resumen

This doctoral thesis aims for different purposes which feed back to each other and can be summarized in three objectives. The first one focuses on providing a new hermeneutical key to unamunian philosophy. Thus, we show that Miguel de Unamuno is a thinker who builds up his philosophy on the basis of love, rather than being a tragic philosopher, as he is usually considered. The second objective reveals the ethics that governs unamunian philosophical discourse. This knowledge will give us a new viewpoint to think about some deficiencies currently present in our society, such as the loss of the internalisation and the spirituality, the lack of communion between humans or the devaluation that education undergoes. Unamuno had to face those deficiencies which were already suffered in Spain more than a century ago and based his related proposals on the love for God, the human love and the love for education. The practical unamunian philosophy, so rooted in love, is the standpoint for this thesis to deal with those present deficiencies. Finally, the third objective is to give birth to the transcription of some unpublished writtings of Miguel de Unamuno, which are kept in the archives of the Casa-Museo Unamuno in Salamanca and linked to this investigation. This unpublished documentation provides a new perspective on religious, existential, ethical, pedagogical and scientific issues, and reinforces the new hermeneutics of unamunian philosophy that we propose.