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DOI 10.12887/28-2015-1-109-17



Krzysztof POLIT – “So that your sons might be better.” Ramiro de Maeztu y Witney on the Crisis of Humanism


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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.

Keywords: Ramiro de Maeztu, Spanish philosophy, human nature, crisis of humanism.

Contact: Department of Ethics, Institute of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology,
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  1. ISSN 0860-8024
  2. e-ISSN 2720-5355
  3. The Republic of Poland Ministry of Science and Higher Education Value: 100.00
  4. Quarterly “Ethos” is indexed by the following databases: EBSCO, CEEOL, Index Copernicus (ICV 2017: 55.26), Philosopher’s Index, ERIH Plus.
  5. DOI Prefix 10.12887