Author: George SantayanaPublisher:
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Category : Belief and doubt
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Scepticism and Animal Faith
Author: George SantayanaPublisher:
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Category : Belief and doubt
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Persons and Places
Author: George SantayanaGeorge Santayana
Author: John RoddenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351517627
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 705
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From the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, George Santayana was a highly esteemed and widely read writer of philosophy, poetry, essays, memoirs, and even a best-selling novel, The Last Puritan. After a period of relative neglect, interest in his work has revived. A complete edited edition of his works is in progress and he has become the object of renewed scholarly activity. Contributing significantly to the renewal was John McCormick's 1987 biography, the first full-scale volume to treat an elusive figure's life and thought in the detail they deserve. Santayana's life was rich in its interior and outer associations. There was his birth and early childhood in Spain followed by a move to Boston, where he came under the influence of William James at Harvard. This led to his career at Harvard as a professor, where Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Conrad Aiken, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Walter Lippmann were among his devoted students. We see Santayana in correspondence and conversation with Bertrand Russell, G.E. Moore, Ezra Pound, and Robert Lowell. Predominant in Santayana's life was his philosophical work. Hostile to the dominant empiricism of Anglo-American philosophy, he left the academy and remained detached from both the political and ideological movements of early decades of the twentieth century. McCormick relates his skepticism and materialism to a form of idealism deriving from his classical education in Plato and Aristotle, together with his readings in Descartes and Spinoza. He presents Santayana as a supreme stylist in English, who lived a long life always consistent with his stoic epicureanism.
Three Philosophical Poets
Author: George SantayanaPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University
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Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Interpretations of Poetry and Religion
Author: George SantayanaPublisher:
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Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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The Life of Reason
Author: George SantayanaPublisher:
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Introduction, and Reason in common sense
Author: George SantayanaPublisher:
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Poems
Author: George SantayanaPersons and Places
Author: George SantayanaPublisher:
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages :
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Santayana the Philosopher
Author: Daniel MorenoPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611486564
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Regarding Santayana it has been claimed that he lacks a system while contradicting himself in outrageous ways. An attentive analysis of his complete œuvre, however, reveals something else entirely. It is not easy to classify a thinker as a Platonic materialist, an ironic nihilist, a spiritual atheist, and a conservative without political commitment, but, if one respects his own language, one discerns an astonishing, little-known Santayana, whose philosophical leitmotif consists in: 1) detecting the numerous “false steps,” logical and moral, supplied by the imagination when it confuses things with the names that designate them, or the world with the feelings that it provokes in the human animal—these errors assume diverse faces: pantheism, moralism, egotism, subjectivism, transcendentalism, Platonism, Puritanism, and utopianism; 2) avoiding these illusions in such a way as to keep the spiritual door open as a form of life to be lived out in an honest fashion; 3) recognizing the natural origin of these temptations and asking oneself what moves humans to succumb imperceptibly to these mistakes, at times tragic, at others comical, and what precautions one can take to remain cognizant of the deceitful leaps that can hijack one’s life; and 4) proposing as an alternative the radical distinction between essence and existence, which leads him to distinguish four realms of being: the realm of essence, the realm of matter, the realm of truth, and the realm of spirit. Essence as logical identity, matter as contingent existence, truth as frozen history, and spirit as the flames that part from contingency and approximate the eternal. An attempt has been made in this book to expand on and clarify these questions.