The Life of Reason, Or, The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction, and Reason in common sense
Author: George Santayana
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 314
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Author: George Santayana
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Published: 1905
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Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 0262016745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSantayana's Life of Reason, published in five books from 1905 to 1906, ranks as one of the greatest works in modern philosophical naturalism. Acknowledging the natural material bases of human life, Santayana traces the development of the human capacity for appreciating and cultivating the ideal. It is a capacity he exhibits as he articulates a continuity running through animal impulse, practical intelligence, and ideal harmony in reason, society, art, religion, and science. The work is an exquisitely rendered vision of human life lived sanely. In this first book of the work, Santayana provides an account of how the human animal develops instinct, passion, and chaotic experience into rationality and ideal life. Inspired by Aristotle's De Anima, Darwin's evolutionary theory, and William James's The Principles of Psychology, Santayana contends that the requirements of action in a hazardous and uncertain environment are the sources of the development of mind. More specifically, instinct and imagination are crucial to the emergence of reason from chaos. Separating himself from the typical thought of the time by his recognition of the imagination, Santayana in this volume offers extensive critiques of various philosophies of mind, including those of Kant and the British empiricists. This Critical Edition, volume VII of The Works of George Santayana, includes a chronology, notes, bibliography, textual commentary, lists of variants, and other tools useful to Santayana scholars.
Author: George Santayana
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 316
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 324
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Published: 1936
Total Pages: 320
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Published: 1962
Total Pages: 190
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 1271
ISBN-13: 9781601290427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhilosopher George Santayana published The Life of Reason in five volumes between 1905 and 1906. Said to be the most fully-realized articulation of Santayana's moral philosophy, the volumes of this set are Reason in Common Sense, Reason in Society, Reason in Religion, Reason in Art, and Reason in Science; all contained in this edition. Considered by many to be one of the more well-written and poetic works in Western philosophy, The Life of Reason gives us the ...