Author: George Santayana
Publisher: Cosimo Classic
Keywords: beauty, sense
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2004-06-14
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1596050187
ISBN-13: 9781596050181

George Santayana, poet, philosopher, and literary and cultural critic, was one of the key figures in classical American philosophy. His naturalism and his emphasis on creative imagination signaled important intellectual changes in America and across the Atlantic. He was a naturalist before naturalism grew popular; he appreciated multiple perfections before multiculturalism became an issue; he thought of philosophy as literature before it became a theme in American and European scholarly circles; and he managed to naturalize Platonism, update Aristotle, fight off idealisms, and provide a striki

Author: George. Santayana
Publisher: Laing Press
Keywords: religion, poetry, interpretations
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1406716413
ISBN-13: 9781406716412

INTERPRETATIONS POETRY AND RELIGION BY GEORGE SANTAYANA NEW YORK CHJLKLES SCRIBNEKS SONS ComiOHt, 1900, BT CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS Printed in the United SUtes of Amok PREFACE TBOB following volume is composed of a number of papers written at various times and already par tially printed they are now revised and gathered together in the hope that they may lead the reader, from somewhat different points of approach, to a single idea. This idea is that religion and poetry are identical in essence, and differ merely in the way in which they are attached to practical affairs. Poetry is called religio

Author: George Santayana
Publisher: Lowe Press
Keywords: places, persons, vol, span, middle
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 1406737453
ISBN-13: 9781406737455

The MIDDLE SPAN VOL. II Persons ana Places BY GEORGE SANTAYANA NEW YORK CHARLBS SCRIBNERS SONS COPYRIGHT, 1945, BY CHARLES SCKIBNERS SONS Alt riffkfs reserved. A r o part of this book wsj be reproduced in any form without ike permission of Charles Scribmrs Sons THIS BOOK IS MANUFACTURED UNDER WARTIME CONDITIONS IN CONFORMITY WITH ALL GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS CONTROLLING THE USE OF PAPER AND OTHER MATERIALS GEORGE SANTAYANA CONTENTS CHAPTER L Germany i II. London 17 III. Russell 44 IV. Changes in Avila 76 V. Younger Harvard Friends 98 VI. Boston Society 1 1 2 VII. Americans in Europe 231 VIII. Of

Author: George Santayana
Publisher: Santayana Press
Keywords: limbo, dialogues
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 1406762717
ISBN-13: 9781406762716

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Author: George Santayana
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: faith, scepticism
Number of Pages: 314
Published: 1955-06-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0486202364
ISBN-13: 9780486202365

Detailed presentation of American philosopher’s pragmatic concept of epistemology, isolation of realms of existents and subsistents. Chapters include "There is No First Principle of Criticism," Dogma and Doubt," and "The Discovery of Essence."

Author: George Santayana
Publisher: General Books LLC
Keywords: reason, life
Number of Pages: 556
Published: 2010-03-07
List price: $19.69
ISBN-10: 1770451978
ISBN-13: 9781770451971

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Author: George Santayana
Publisher: General Books LLC
Keywords: beauty, sense
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2009-08-16
List price: $7.82
ISBN-10: 0217611230
ISBN-13: 9780217611237

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Peru without any conscious change in the local tensions of the body. This illusion of disembodiment is very exhilarating, while immersion in the flesh and confinement to some organ gives a tone of grossuess and selfishness to our consciousness. The generally meaner associations of physical pleasures also help to explain their comparative crudity. § 8. The distinction between pleas- n differentia i.i c i