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The Life of Reason

Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 150404441X
Total Pages : 839 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Reason written by George Santayana and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 839 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Santayana’s renowned work of moral philosophy outlines his vision of the ideal life. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana’s The Life of Reason stands as one of the most influential and beautifully written works of philosophical naturalism. In it, Santayana articulates his vision of human progression from chaos to reason and the pursuit of the ideal life. Focusing his thought on the lived experiences of people, these phases are traced through humanity’s many endeavors, including art, science, politics, religion, friendship, and reason. Drawing on a range of influences, from Democritus and Aristotle to Spinoza and Schopenhauer, Santayana develops a materialist system of thought that stresses the importance of imagination and spiritual experience. Originally published in five volumes, from 1905 to 1906, The Life of Reason is Santayana’s most complete statement of moral philosophy and an inspiring account of human dignity. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

The Life of Reason (Five Volumes in One)

Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781974428489
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Reason (Five Volumes in One) written by George Santayana and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Influential philosopher, poet, and literary critic George Santayana was a thorough naturalist, concerned with the ideal factors in human experience. He held that everything possesses a natural basis and that everything natural has an ideal development. In thiese volumes edition of his early work, The Life of Reason, Santayana argues that rational life is embodied in various ideal forms, including religion, and that religion may be embodied in reason. However, this is not to say that religion is grounded in science; rather, religion is poetic, a rendering of natural events in a dramatic form. Hence, to take so-called religious truths as literal claims is preposterous.

The Life of Reason Volume 1

Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781724773197
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (731 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Reason Volume 1 written by George Santayana and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life of Reason Volume 1 By George Santayana This Dover edition, first published in 1980, is an unabridged republication of volume one of The Life of Reason; or the Phases of Human Progress, originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1905. This volume contains the general introduction to the entire five-volume series We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

The Life of Reason

Author : George Santayana
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262016745
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Reason written by George Santayana and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Santayana'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.

Scepticism and Animal Faith

Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486158322
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Scepticism and Animal Faith written by George Santayana and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

Introduction, and Reason in common sense

Author : George Santayana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Introduction, and Reason in common sense written by George Santayana and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Life of Reason

Author : George Santayana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781601290427
Total Pages : 1271 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Reason written by George Santayana and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosopher 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 ...

The Life of Reason, critical edition, Volume 7

Author : George Santayana
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262298163
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Reason, critical edition, Volume 7 written by George Santayana and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011-08-05 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Santayana argues that instinct and imagination are crucial to the emergence of reason from chaos. Santayana'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. The other four books of the volume include Reason in Society, Reason in Religion, Reason in Art, and Reason in Science.

The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress

Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress written by George Santayana and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published between 1905-06, 'The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress' by Spanish-born American philosopher George Santayana is written in five volumes: Reason in Common Sense, Reason in Society, Reason in Religion, Reason in Art, and Reason in Science.

The Life of Reason

Author : George Santayana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Reason written by George Santayana and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Life of Reason, Volumes I to III

Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Pinnacle Press
ISBN 13 : 9781374989542
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (895 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Reason, Volumes I to III written by George Santayana and published by Pinnacle Press. This book was released on 2017-05-26 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress, critical edition, Volume 7

Author : George Santayana
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262551446
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress, critical edition, Volume 7 written by George Santayana and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final book in Santayana's masterwork of philosophical naturalism argues that science crowns the life of reason. Santayana'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 ideals. 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 fifth book, Santayana concludes his monumental work with a defense of science and a critique of major rivals to the cognitive ascendancy of science. Indeed, Santayana writes that science crowns the “whole life of Reason.” He finds two kinds of science, physics and dialectic; considers the role of history; examines the mechanisms of nature; defends scientific psychology; discusses pre-rational morality, rational ethics, and post-rational morality; and argues that science contains all trustworthy knowledge. This Critical Edition, volume VII of The Works of George Santayana, includes notes, textual commentary, lists of variants and emendations, an index, and other tools useful to Santayana scholars. The other four books of the volume are Reason in Common Sense, Reason in Society, Reason in Religion, and Reason in Art.

On What Matters

Author : Derek Parfit
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191084379
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book On What Matters written by Derek Parfit and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derek Parfit presents the third volume of On What Matters, his landmark work of moral philosophy. Parfit develops further his influential treatment of reasons, normativity, the meaning of moral discourse, and the status of morality. He engages with his critics, and shows the way to resolution of their differences. This volume is partly about what it is for things to matter, in the sense that we all have reasons to care about these things. Much of the book discusses three of the main kinds of meta-ethical theory: Normative Naturalism, Quasi-Realist Expressivism, and Non-Metaphysical Non-Naturalism, which Derek Parfit now calls Non-Realist Cognitivism. This third theory claims that, if we use the word 'reality' in an ontologically weighty sense, irreducibly normative truths have no mysterious or incredible ontological implications. If instead we use 'reality' in a wide sense, according to which all truths are truths about reality, this theory claims that some non-empirically discoverable truths-such as logical, mathematical, modal, and some normative truths-raise no difficult ontological questions. Parfit discusses these theories partly by commenting on the views of some of the contributors to Peter Singer's collection Does Anything Really Matter? Parfit on Objectivity. Though Peter Railton is a Naturalist, he has widened his view by accepting some further claims, and he has suggested that this wider version of Naturalism could be combined with Non-Realist Cognitivism. Parfit argues that Railton is right, since these theories no longer deeply disagree. Though Allan Gibbard is a Quasi-Realist Expressivist, he has suggested that the best version of his view could be combined with Non-Realist Cognitivism. Parfit argues that Gibbard is right, since Gibbard and he now accept the other's main meta-ethical claim. It is rare for three such different philosophical theories to be able to be widened in ways that resolve their deepest disagreements. This happy convergence supports the view that these meta-ethical theories are true. Parfit also discusses the views of several other philosophers, and some other meta-ethical and normative questions.

The Life of Reason Volume 3

Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781724773227
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Reason Volume 3 written by George Santayana and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life of Reason Volume 3 By George Santayana This Dover edition, first published in 1980, is an unabridged republication of volume one of The Life of Reason; or the Phases of Human Progress, originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1905. This volume contains the general introduction to the entire five-volume series We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress, critical edition, Volume 7

Author : George Santayana
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262028328
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress, critical edition, Volume 7 written by George Santayana and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third of five books in one of the greatest works in modern philosophical naturalism. Santayana'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 third book, Santayana offers a naturalistic interpretation of religion. He believes that religion is ignoble if regarded as a truthful depiction of real beings and events; but regarded as poetry, it might be the greatest source of wisdom. Santayana analyzes four characteristic religious concerns: piety, spirituality, charity, and immortality. He is at his most profound in his discussion of immortality, arguing for an ideal immortality that does not eradicate the fear of death but offers a way for mortal man to share in immortal things and live in a manner that will bestow on his successors the imprint of his soul. This critical edition, volume VII of The Works of George Santayana, includes notes, textual commentary, lists of variants and emendations, bibliography, and other tools useful to Santayana scholars. The other four books of the volume include Reason in Common Sense, Reason in Society, Reason in Art, and Reason in Science.

The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress, critical edition, Volume 7

Author : George Santayana
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262314673
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress, critical edition, Volume 7 written by George Santayana and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second of five books of one of the greatest works in modern philosophical naturalism. Santayana'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 second book, Santayana analyzes several distinctive forms of human association, from political and economic orders to forms of friendship, to determine what possibilities they provide for the life of reason. He considers, among other topics, love and the affinity for the ideal, the family, aristocracy and democracy, the constituents of genuinely free friendship (including that of husband and wife), patriotism, and the ideal society of kindred spirits. 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. The other four books of the volume include Reason in Common Sense, Reason in Religion, Reason in Art, and Reason in Science.

The Life of Reason Or, the Phases of Human Progress

Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781987622140
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Reason Or, the Phases of Human Progress written by George Santayana and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-07 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All five volumes of George Santayana's philosophical masterwork exploring the manifestations of reason in life are united in this superb edition. The Life of Reason begins boldly, with Santayana explaining his concept of reason in great detail. How a mind may embark and progress on applying rational thought to life is explained, and the practical value of such thinking methods are demonstrated. More abstractly, Santayana expounds on how a rational mind confers value to the person, and considers how such value may be measured. The second volume sees the author questioning whether men can be exhorted to virtuous behaviors without the concept of a creator, heaven, hell or other supernatural concepts. Realizing that morality has never been divorced from aspects of spirituality, Santayana dismisses the concept of a purely rational society as a fancy of various philosophers. However, he notes that many virtuous but non-supernaturally aligned persons result from a healthy upbringing and social life. The third volume, Reason in Religion, is an emotional and at times autobiographical account of Santayana's own struggles with faith. Though raised in the Spanish Catholic faith, personal problems with the organized and hierarchical expression of religion led the philosopher to distance himself. Yet Santayana is unhappy with the satiric barbs hurled at established religions such as Catholicism, and notes that one can never understand mankind without also comprehending faith. Volumes four and five concern science and art, respectively. The basis of artistic expression and its grounding in reasoning is discussed, with chapters dedicated to the visual art of painting and also music. Santayana begins his analysis of science by distinguishing between types of scientific thought, before discussing the scientific method, and the moral questions surrounding scientific experiment and progress. Towards the conclusion of his life, Santayana was urged by his publisher to condense the myriad teachings of The Life of Reason into a single volume. While the author was successful in this task, it is the original, five-volume edition which clearly - and in many instances, utterly - express the philosophical ideas. In popular culture, The Life of Reason is most famous for containing many of Santayana's most celebrated aphorisms, such as "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Beyond this frank wisdom, it is a treatise profoundly personal and intellectual, brimming with knowledge and a provocative yet fresh approach to age-old questions.