Rafael Barrett
Rafael Barrett (born January 7, 1876 in Torrelavega , † December 17, 1910 in Arcachon ) was a Spanish essayist.
Life
From 1897 he studied engineering in Madrid. There his first publications were two popular science articles. In 1903 he was in Buenos Aires, founded the Unión Matemática Argentina with Julio Rey Pastor , and corresponded with Henri Poincaré .
In October 1904 he traveled to Villeta, Paraguay , to report on the political unrest for the Argentine El Tiempo . In doing so, he came into contact with intellectual revolutionaries. In December he moved to Asunción . Barrett attracted attention with announcements that he would duel. In 1906 he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. He reported on human rights violations following the Albino Jara coup and was arrested but released ten days later. In 1908 he temporarily moved to Montevideo . In 1910 he returned to Europe seriously ill, where he died shortly after the publication of Moralidades Actuales .
plant
Barrett was a follower of the philosophy of life , referred in particular to Henri Bergson . For him, life is the only reality that is constantly in motion and cannot be described absolutely. For him, the ideal and the mystery are equal parts of reality.
He dealt with the conflict between religion and science, pleading for a religion freed from dogmas, in which man creates God, as Jesus once did.
Barrett also dealt with the theory of evolution . In addition to the survival of the strongest, he saw the weak also organize themselves; in addition to adapting to the environment, also that it is adapted. His investigations always concerned the philosophical implications of evolution.
In the article Mi anarquismo in 1908 he describes himself as an anarchist. I understand anarchism solely as a freedom to question politics , he wrote. He was an admirer of Leo Tolstoy .
Web links
- Rafael Barrett - Proyecto Ensayo Hispánico (Spanish)
- Cartas íntimas (1906–1910) (Spanish)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barrett, Rafael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rafael Ángel Jorge Julián Barrett y Álvarez |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish essayist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Torrelavega |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 17, 1910 |
| Place of death | Arcachon |