by Baltasar Gracián · Debate · tapa dura · ISBN 9788483063002
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«Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia» is the book of aphorisms by the Jesuit Baltasar Gracián, published by Debate in hardcover (158 pages, in Spanish).
Written during the Spanish Golden Age, the work gathers aphorisms and practical precepts for living prudently and navigating a society governed by self-interest. It combines shrewd realism about human relations with ethical rigor; its maxims influenced thinkers such as Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.
The text was originally published in 1647. This Debate edition, published in 2000, with prologue and editing by Emilio Blanco, is the fifth volume in the series Siete libros sobre el arte de vivir.
Recommended for readers interested in moral philosophy, Golden Age literature and self-help classics with a historical approach.
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.
