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Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Three Philosophical Poets written by George Santayana and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University. This book was released on 1910 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Henry Hunter Wilbur
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Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book George Santayana and Three Modern Philosophical Poets written by Robert Henry Hunter Wilbur and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Santayana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Three Philosophical Poets written by George Santayana and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781547059980
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (599 download)
Download or read book Three Philosophical Poets written by George Santayana and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skip again some five hundred years, and there is another change of scene. The Teutonic races that had previously conquered Europe have begun to dominate and understand themselves. They have become Protestants, or protesters against the Roman world. An infinite fountain of life seems to be unlocked within their bosom. They turn successively to the Bible, to learning, to patriotism, to industry, for new objects to love and fresh worlds to conquer; but they have too much vitality, or too little maturity, to rest in any of these things. A demon drives them on; and this demon, divine and immortal in its apparent waywardness, is their inmost self. It is their insatiable will, their radical courage. Nay, though this be a hard saying to the uninitiated, their will is the creator of all those objects by which it is sometimes amused, and sometimes baffled, but never tamed. Their will summons all opportunities and dangers out of nothing to feed its appetite for action; and in that ideal function lies their sole reality. Once attained, things are transcended. Like the episodes of a spent dream, they are to be smiled at and forgotten; the spirit that feigned and discarded them remains always strong and undefiled; it aches for new conquests over new fictions. This is romanticism.
Author : George Santayana
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262043351
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe, critical edition, Volume 8 written by George Santayana and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Santayana's argument for the unity of philosophy and poetry. This concise and compelling volume—described by Santayana as a “piece of literary criticism, together with a first broad lesson in the history of philosophy”—introduces Santayana's thought in the rich context of a European poetic tradition that demonstrates his broad conception of philosophy. Rejecting both the Platonic opposition of philosophy and poetry and more recent attempts to reduce philosophy to science, Santayana argues that philosophy and poetry at their best are united in articulating a comprehensive vision of the world that permits honest contemplation of the universe. He considers the ideal visions of three artists: Lucretius's naturalism provides a total perspective on the physical world but renders experience monotonous; Dante's supernaturalism provides a total perspective on experience but subordinates nature to morality; Goethe's romanticism provides a dramatic perspective on nature and experience but lacks totality. Santayana sees each as the best in his own way, though none is best in all ways; and he speculates that the ideal poet would integrate the gifts and insights of all three, resulting in “rational art,” of which philosophical poetry is a prime example. This critical edition, volume VIII of The Works of George Santayana, includes notes, textual commentary, lists of variants and emendations, an index, and other tools useful to Santayana scholars.
Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
ISBN 13 : 1435142233
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Three Philosophical Poets written by George Santayana and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I am no specialist in the study of Lucretius; I am not a Dante scholar nor a Goethe scholar….My excuse for writing about them, notwithstanding, is merely the human excuse which every new poet has for writing about the spring. They have attracted me; they have moved me to reflection; they have revealed to me certain aspects of nature and of philosophy which I am prompted by mere sincerity to express, if anybody seems interested or willing to listen.” The modesty exhibited in the above disclaimer—from Santayana’s preface to Three Philosophical Poets—should be viewed in the context of the author’s extraordinary impact as a philosopher and teacher. The Sense of Beauty has claim to being the first major work on aesthetics written in the United States; the multivolume The Life of Reason is arguably the first extended analysis of pragmatism anywhere. Among Santayana’s many well-known Harvard students, Wallace Stevens has acknowledged a clear debt to his work. Based on a course Santayana taught at Harvard, Three Philosophical Poets was first delivered to the public as a series of lectures at Columbia University in 1910. Santayana’s lifelong, learned meditation on the relationship between philosophy and art is apparent. (Santayana’s own prose style has long been considered among the most eloquent in all of philosophy.) Here, he discusses the chief phases of European philosophy—naturalism, supernaturalism, and romanticism—as they are set forth and epitomized by the works of Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe, respectively. Praise for Three Philosophical Poets and its author “[A] brilliant and admirable little book.” —T. S. Eliot “The exquisite and memorable way in which he has always said things has given so much delight that we accept what he says as we accept our own civilization. His pages are part of the douceur de vivre.” —Wallace Stevens “Santayana was the real excitement for me at Harvard, especially Three PhilosophicalPoets….It really fixed my view of what poetry should ultimately be.” —Conrad Aiken
Author : Irving Singer
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300128533
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book George Santayana written by Irving Singer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Santayana was unique in his contribution to American culture. For almost sixty years before his death in 1952, he combined literary and philosophical talents, writing not only important works of philosophy but also a best-selling novel, volumes of poetry, and much literary criticism. In this fascinating portrait of Santayana’s thought and complex personality, Irving Singer explores the full range of his harmonization of the literary and the philosophical. Singer shows how Santayana’s genius consisted in his imaginative ability to turn various types of personal alienation into creative elements that recur throughout his books. Singer points out that Santayana was a professional philosopher who addressed immediate problems of existence, a materialist in philosophy who believed in both a life of spirit and a life of reason, a product of American pragmatism who nevertheless rebelled against it, a Spaniard who wrote only in English, an American author who spent the last forty years of his life in different European countries. Against the grain of most twentieth-century philosophy, Santayana kept in view questions that matter to us all in our search for meaningful and satisfying lives.
Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107437644
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy written by George Santayana and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1933, this book contains five philosophical essays by the famous philosopher and essayist George Santayana. The topics cover both older philosophy, such as those of Locke, as well as philosophy's relationship to newer discoveries, such as the theory of relativity. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in twentieth-century philosophy and the writings of Santayana.
Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Poems written by George Santayana and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known as George Santayana, was a Spanish and American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. He was the author who created many popular aphorisms, such as "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," "Only the dead have seen the end of war," and the definition of beauty as "pleasure objectified". His book of poetry is a source of clever and witty thoughts, where the earthly wisdom takes a harmonious aesthetic shape.
Author : George Santayana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258916244
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (162 download)
Download or read book Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy written by George Santayana and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1933 edition.
Author : George Santayana
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262016745
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
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.
Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
ISBN 13 : 9780344983382
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (833 download)
Download or read book Three Philosophical Poets written by George Santayana and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 230 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.
Author : George Santayana
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0262035286
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
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 National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 0 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.
Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Winds Of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion written by George Santayana and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winds of Doctrine by George Santayana is a philosophical textbook exploring and debating the ideas of Bertrand Russell and Henri Bergson. Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known in English as George Santayana, was a Spanish philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. Excerpt: "The present age is a critical one and interesting to live in. The civilization characteristic of Christendom has not disappeared, yet another civilization has begun to take its place. We still understand the value of religious faith; we still appreciate the pompous arts of our forefathers; we are brought up on academic architecture, sculpture, painting, poetry, and music."
Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781011270811
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Life Of Reason: Reason In Art written by George Santayana and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 242 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : George Santayana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book The Works of George Santayana written by George Santayana and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781499635669
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (356 download)
Download or read book George Santayana, Collection written by George Santayana and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known as George Santayana (December 16, 1863 - September 26, 1952), was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. He wrote in English and is generally considered an American man of letters. At the age of forty-eight, Santayana left his position at Harvard and returned to Europe permanently, never to return to the United States. His last will was to be buried in the Spanish Pantheon of the Cimitero Monumentale del Verano in Rome. Santayana is known for famous sayings, such as "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it", and "Only the dead have seen the end of war." Santayana is broadly included among the pragmatists with Harvard University colleagues William James and Josiah Royce. He said that he stood in philosophy "exactly where [he stood] in daily life." In this book: The Sense of Beauty, Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory Three Philosophical Poets, Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe Character and Opinion in the United States Winds Of Doctrine, Studies in Contemporary Opinion Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy, Five Essays
