Author: MARTEN TEN HOORPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
A CRITICAL ESTIMATE OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF GEORGE SANTAYANA.
Three Philosophical Poets
Author: George SantayanaPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Scepticism and Animal Faith
Author: George SantayanaPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486202365
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
In this work, Santayana analyzes the nature of the knowing process and demonstrates by means of clear, powerful arguments how we know and what validates our knowledge. The central concept of his philosophy is found in a careful discrimination between the awareness of objects independent of our perception and the awareness of essences attributed to objects by our mind, or between what Santayana calls the realm of existents and the realm of subsistents. Since we can never be certain that these attributes actually inhere in a substratum of existents, skepticism is established as a form of belief, but animal faith is shown to be a necessary quality of the human mind. Without this faith there could be no rational approach to the necessary problem of understanding and surviving in this world. Santayana derives this practical philosophy from a wide and fascinating variety of sources. He considers critically the positions of such philosophers as Descartes, Euclid, Hume, Kant, Parmenides, Plato, Pythagoras, Schopenhauer, and the Buddhist school as well as the assumptions made by the ordinary man in everyday situations. Such matters as the nature of belief, the rejection of classical idealism, the nature of intuition and memory, symbols and myth, mathematical reality, literary psychology, the discovery of essence, sublimation of animal faith, the implied being of truth, and many others are given detailed analyses in individual chapters.
The Sense of Beauty
Author: George SantayanaPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412838900
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The author of the introduction to this new edition, John McCormick, reminds us that The Sense of Beauty is the first work in aesthetics written in the United States. Santayana was versed in the history of his subject, from Plato and Aristotle to Schopenhauer and Taine in the nineteenth century. Santayana took as his task a complete rethinking of the idea that beauty is embedded in objects. Rather, beauty is an emotion, a value, and a sense of the good. In this aesthetics was unlike ethics: not a correction of evil or pursuit of the virtuous. Rather it is a pleasure that residues in the sense of self. The work is divided into chapters on the materials of beauty, form, and expression. A good many of Santayana's later works are presaged by this early effort. And this volume also anticipates the development of art as a movement as well as a value apart from other aspects of life.
Egotism in German Philosophy
Author: George SantayanaPublisher: DigiCat
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
George Santayana in this book talks about the soul of German philosophy – Egotism. He considered it as a subjectivity in thought and willfulness in morals which is by no means a gratuitous thing. It discusses the pathetic situation that German philosophy has inculcated in its people.
Persons and Places
Author: George SantayanaIntroduction, and Reason in common sense
Author: George SantayanaPublisher:
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Interpretations of Poetry and Religion
Author: George SantayanaPublisher:
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Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy
Author: George SantayanaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780300116656
Category : National characteristics, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book brings together two seminal works by George Santayana, one of the most significant philosophers of the twentieth century: Character and Opinion in the United States, which stands with Tocqueville's Democracy in America as one t
Soliloquies in England, and Later Soliloquies
Author: George SantayanaPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies is a work by George Santayana. The author was a philosopher, essayist, and poet, here presenting his monologues that are to be addressed to oneself, also known as soliloquies.