Publication: El pensamiento político de Gumersindo de Azcárate
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1964
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La pensée politique d'Azcárate se car ocíense en premier lieu par son souci éthique bien marqué. Azcárate s'efforqa de marier son christianismé liberal a la religión et a la métaphysique, deux formes de la vie spirituelle qui dans son temps étaient plus éloignées que jamáis. Pour Azcárate la religión est non seulement une forme mais quelque chose de substantif dans la vie de l'homme, Azcárate tombant toutefois dans une sorte de panthéisme lorsqu'ü souligne l'aspect personnel de la religión. Cette conception religieuse, indubitablement liée a sa pensée, accentue le caractere éthico'normatif de celle'ci. Le point de départ se trouve dans la conscience d'un devoir étre qui irouve sa justification dans son immanance. Un autre trait essentiel de sa pensée en est le criticisme. II surgit devant la réalité politique de son temps, son attitude étant a l'opposé de celle de Cas novas et de ses partisans. II ne croit pas que la Monarchie restaurée puisse resondre les problémes qui se posent a l'Espagne. La solution serait la République, mais non pas une République individualiste et étroite, jalouse princu palment des formes, ni une République révolutionnaire et désorganisatrice, mais une République réformiste et conservatrice tout a la fois, décentralisée et unte en mime temps. Azcárate fut une homme politique a idees et d'acüon. Sa critique doctri' naire vade pair avec 40 ans de vie parlementaire intense. C'est pourquoi, il amerite une place de choix parmi les hommes publics de son temps, autant par la noblesse de sa pensée que par l'authenticité de sa vie. Et s'ü est vrai qu'ü ne fut pas un penseur créateur de génie on peut diré, toutefois, en andysant sa conception de la politique, de la souveraineté, de la société, de l'homme, de l'Etat, qu'il se montra a la hauteur de son époque.
Azcárate's political thought is characterized above all by its ethical qualities. As a liberal Christian, he tried to harmonize religión and metaphysics, two forms of spiritual Ufe *which ivere more estranged than ever in his time. For Azcárate, religión is not just form. ít is something substantial in man's Ufe. But in emphasizing the personal aspect of religión, he falls prey to a certain amount of pantheism. This religious concept, in connection {with his political thought accents it ethical'normative character. His central point is the ness of the "must-be". Another essential feature of thought is his political radicalism. This is a product of the political situation of his time. He is opposed to the conservative politics of Cánovas. He does not believe that the restored Monarchy can solve Spain's political and social problems. Their solution lies in a Republic, not in a rigid and individualistic Republic overly preoccupied ivith form, ñor in a revolutionary and disorganiged Republic, but in a Republic ivhich is at once reforming and conservative, decentralized yet united. Acárate ivas a man of ideas and action. His critical theory Kvas accompanied by forty years of intense parliamentary Ufe. And, as much for the nobilityof his thought as for the authenticy of his Ufe, he deserves an exceptional place among the public figures of his time. If he ivas not a genially creative thinker, it can be said, on analysing his concepts of politics, sovereignty, man and state, that he ivas a man equal to his time.
Azcárate's political thought is characterized above all by its ethical qualities. As a liberal Christian, he tried to harmonize religión and metaphysics, two forms of spiritual Ufe *which ivere more estranged than ever in his time. For Azcárate, religión is not just form. ít is something substantial in man's Ufe. But in emphasizing the personal aspect of religión, he falls prey to a certain amount of pantheism. This religious concept, in connection {with his political thought accents it ethical'normative character. His central point is the ness of the "must-be". Another essential feature of thought is his political radicalism. This is a product of the political situation of his time. He is opposed to the conservative politics of Cánovas. He does not believe that the restored Monarchy can solve Spain's political and social problems. Their solution lies in a Republic, not in a rigid and individualistic Republic overly preoccupied ivith form, ñor in a revolutionary and disorganiged Republic, but in a Republic ivhich is at once reforming and conservative, decentralized yet united. Acárate ivas a man of ideas and action. His critical theory Kvas accompanied by forty years of intense parliamentary Ufe. And, as much for the nobilityof his thought as for the authenticy of his Ufe, he deserves an exceptional place among the public figures of his time. If he ivas not a genially creative thinker, it can be said, on analysing his concepts of politics, sovereignty, man and state, that he ivas a man equal to his time.