The Essential Santayana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Essential Santayana write by George Santayana. This book was released on 2009. The Essential Santayana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although he was born in Spain, George Santayana (1863-1952) became a uniquely American philosopher, critic, poet, and best-selling novelist. Along with his Harvard colleagues William James and Josiah Royce, he is best known as one of the founders of American pragmatism and recognized for his insights into the theory of knowledge, metaphysics, and moral philosophy. The Essential Santayana presents a selection of Santayana's most important and influential literary and philosophical work. Martin A. Coleman's critical introduction sets Santayana into the American philosophical tradition and provides context for contemporary readers, many of whom may be approaching Santayana's writings for the first time. This landmark collection reveals the intellectual and literary diversity of one of American philosophy's most lively minds.
Scepticism and Animal Faith
Scepticism and Animal Faith - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scepticism and Animal Faith write by George Santayana. This book was released on 1923. Scepticism and Animal Faith available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Essential Wisdom of George Santayana
The Essential Wisdom of George Santayana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Essential Wisdom of George Santayana write by Thomas N. Munson. This book was released on 1962. The Essential Wisdom of George Santayana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Santayana the Philosopher
Santayana the Philosopher - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Santayana the Philosopher write by Daniel Moreno. This book was released on 2015-03-06. Santayana the Philosopher available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Sense of Beauty
The Sense of Beauty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sense of Beauty write by George Santayana. This book was released on 1955-01-01. The Sense of Beauty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The great philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist masterfully offers his fascinating outline of Aesthetics Theory. Drawing on the art, literature, and social sciences involved, Santayana discusses the nature of beauty, form, and expression.
