by Baltasar Gracián · Temas de Hoy · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478803460
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«El Arte de la Prudencia» is Baltasar Gracián's practical philosophy manual, published by Temas de Hoy in paperback (184 pages, in Spanish).
The work brings together three hundred commented aphorisms with advice for getting by in a competitive and hostile society, presenting prudence as an art that can be learned. Baltasar Gracián's thought influenced authors such as La Rochefoucauld, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, and this work continues to be published in numerous countries.
The book collects Gracián's Oráculo manual, edited by José Ignacio Díez Fernández.
For readers interested in practical philosophy and personal development works of classical inspiration.
Baltasar Gracián y Morales, better known as Baltasar Gracián, was a Spanish Jesuit priest and Baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud (Aragón). His writings were lauded by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. He is best known for his book The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647), but his novel El Criticón (1651-57) is considered his greatest work.
