Miguel de Unamuno's Quest for Faith: A Kierkegaardian Understanding of Unamuno’s Struggle to Believe

Is doubt a necessary part of faith? Are doubt and faith mutually exclusive? Are there dangers in claiming certainty for belief?

Reason separates us from God, Unamuno held, but we come to God by way of love and suffering. The knowledge of God, which is not rational, proceeds from the love of God.

Philosophy begins, and in my view must end, as an attempt to answer real questions asked by real people.

“unhealed wound”

Unamuno was convinced that out of the tragic sense of life—the despair and pain that unfulfilled religious longing entails—emerges heroics deeds, hope, and love.

Unamuno wrote, “Philosophy is a product of the humanity of each philosopher, and each philosopher is a man of flesh and bone who addresses himself to other men of flesh and bone like himself. And, let him do what he will, he philosophizes not with the reason only, but with the will, with the feelings, with the flesh and with the bones, with the who

it might be interesting to ask what is so frightening about death. Why do people fear death? Why did Unamuno shrink from it?

“faith continues to live on doubt.”

First, his insistence that philosophy must be relevant to real life is one that I resonate with.