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t. e. Baltasar Gracián y Morales, S.J. ( Spanish: [baltaˈsaɾ ɣɾaˈθjan]; 8 January 1601 – 6 December 1658), better known as Baltasar Gracián, was a Spanish Jesuit and Baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud ( Aragón ). His writings were lauded by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.
- Western Philosophy
Baltasar Gracián (born January 8, 1601, Belmonte de Calatayud, Spain—died December 6, 1658, Tarazona) was a philosopher and writer known as the leading Spanish exponent of conceptism ( conceptismo ), a style of dealing with ideas that involves the use of terse and subtle displays of exaggerated wit. After studying at Calatayud and Zaragoza ...
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Baltasar Gracián y Morales ( Belmonte de Gracián, 8 de enero de 1601- Tarazona, 6 de diciembre de 1658) fue un jesuita, nacido en Isla Cristina, escritor español del Siglo de Oro que cultivó la prosa didáctica y filosófica. Entre sus obras destaca El Criticón — alegoría de la vida humana—, que constituye una de las novelas más ...
- 6 de diciembre de 1658 (57 años), Tarazona (Reino de Aragón, Corona de Aragón)
- Catolicismo
Jul 8, 2012 · The Art of Worldly Wisdom or The Pocket Oracle and the Art of Prudence, is a book of 300 maxims and commentary written by a 17th century Jesuit priest named Baltasar Gracián. Considered by many to be Machiavelli’s better in strategy and insight, Gracian’s maxims give advice on how to flourish and thrive in a cutthroat world filled with ...
"Baltasar Gracián" published on by null. (1601–58)Spanish baroque moralist, and Jesuit scholar, whose works influenced La Rochefoucauld, and later Voltaire, Nietzsche, and Borges. Schopenhauer considered Gracián's El criterión (1651–7, trs. into English as The Critick, 1781) one of the best books ever written.
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Dec 16, 2023 · Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601–1658) was a Spanish Jesuit thinker and writer regarded as a master of Baroque “conceptist” prose and author of relevant philosophical and political works, the most influential of which, El Criticón, is considered the summit of the allegorical novel in Spanish. The son of a doctor and his second wife ...
Baltasar Gracián y Morales (January 8, 1601 - December 6, 1658) was a Spanish Jesuit philosopher, prose writer and baroque moralist. After receiving a Jesuit education which included humanities and literature as well as philosophy and theology, he entered the Jesuit order in 1633 and became a teacher and eventually of the Jesuit college of Tarragona.
