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Introduction. Miguel de Unamuno is a Spanish philosopher who pondered over the question of the meaning of human existence and the purpose of life. The anxiety about death generates in individuals a desire for immortality, which finds its expression in what M. de Unamuno termed as the “tragic feeling of life”. Theoretical analysis. The proposed examination focuses on the concept of aspiration as articulated by M. de Unamuno, employing both dialectical and hermeneutic methodologies.

In the XXI century, the humanity continues to actively transform the world, technological progress puts rationalism in the first place as a worldview. Of course, the balance between rationalism and irrationalism in one time dimension and cultural space is difficult to achieve, each of these types periodically prevails and therefore has a specific impact on culture. At the same time, periods of changing cognitive and value orientations may be accompanied by crisis phenomena of a moral and ethical nature.