GOD, IMMORTALITY, AND LIVED EXPERIENCE IN UNAMUNO

The pertinence of Miguel de Unamuno's ideas concerning God, immortality, and lived experience are, to me, perhaps best illustrated by the following. If I may paraphrase, I heard David Tracy make this statement at a Buddhist-Christian dialogue held at Purdue University in October of 1986: if Socrates was right in claiming that the unexamined life is not worth living, Zen Buddhists are no less correct in maintaining that the unlived life is not worth examining.

1 Martin Nozick, Miguel de Unamuno: The Agony of Belief (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University. 1982), 22-23.

2 Nozick, 35-38.

3 Ibid., 43-44, 47, 49, 68.

4 NoZiCk, 57-59, 85-100.

5 IbId., 74-76.

6 Ibid., 75.

7 Ibid., 33

8NoZiCk, 33-34, 110-128.

9IbId., 32.

10IbId., 18.

11 Bernard E. Meland, Fallible Forms and Symbols: Discourses of Method in a Theology of Culture (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1976), 24.

12Miguel de Unamuno, Tragic Sense of Life, trans. J. E. Crawford Flitch (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1954), 133-139.

I3Ibid., 139.

14Ibid.

15IWd., 139-140.

16Ibid., 140.

17IbId., 148-150, 179-180, 182-183,205-218.

18Unamuno, Tragic Sense of Life, 148-150, 179-180, 182-183,205-218.

19Ibid, 153.

20Miguel de Unamuno, The Agony of Christianity, trans. Kurt F. Reihardt (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1960), 17-35.

21Unamuno, Tragic Sense of Life, 297-330.

22William James, "Pragmatism and Religion," in The Writings of William James, ed. John J. McDermott (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1977), 461.

23William James, "What Makes a Life Significant," in The Writings of William James, ed. McDermott, 645-660.

24William James, "The Pragmatic Method [Pragmatism and Radical Empiricism]," in The Writings of William James, ed. McDermott, 311-317.

25James, "What Makes a Life Significant," 645-660.

26Schubert M. Ogden, The Reality of God and Other Essays (New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1966), 1-70.

27ibid., 64.

28John B. Cobb, Jr., God and the World (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1969), 84.

Leslie A. Muray

Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion

Curry College

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