by Pedro Laín Entralgo · EDICIONES NOBEL, SA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788489770492
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«Qué es el hombre: evolución y sentido de la vida» is the philosophical essay by Pedro Laín Entralgo, published by Ediciones Nobel in paperback (218 pages).
It surveys Western anthropology, from the Greeks to modern science, to oppose the soul/body dualism and materialism with a dynamicist reading of the evolution of the cosmos and the human being. Laín Entralgo dialogues with Leibniz, Heidegger, Ortega and Xavier Zubiri, and seeks a common space for reasonable beliefs.
It won the 1999 Jovellanos International Essay Prize and is number 17 in the Jovellanos Essay Collection. It is the first edition.
For readers interested in Spanish philosophy, philosophical anthropology and the essay.
Pedro Laín Entralgo was a Spanish physician, historian, author and philosopher. He worked, fundamentally, on medical history and anthropology.
