A Life Of Scholarship With Santayana

Author : Herman J. Saatkamp Jr.
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004446656
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Life of Scholarship with Santayana written by Herman J. Saatkamp Jr. and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herman J. Saatkamp’s A Life of Scholarship with Santayana: Essays and Reflections gathers together his work of a lifetime. There are twenty-three pieces, in three sections: “Santayana and Philosophy,” “Editorship,” and “Genetic Concerns and the Future of Philosophy.”

Author : Henry S. Levinson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807820315
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Santayana, Pragmatism, and the Spirtitual Life written by Henry S. Levinson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Levinson offers a major reinterpretation of the Spanish-born American philosopher George Santayana (1863-1952), which highlights his relationship to the tradition of American pragmatism. He shows that Santayana's role in forming the pragmatist tradi

Author : Daniel Moreno
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611486564
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Santayana the Philosopher written by Daniel Moreno and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : George Santayana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Persons and Places written by George Santayana and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004680055
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Meaningful Life amidst a Pluralism of Cultures and Values written by Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a growing concern about living a meaningful life among those living in different contexts of cultural diversity, be it the American melting pot, the union of European nations, the multiculturally globalized, the multiformity of tribalism of various stripes, and the fashionable cyber bubbles of opinion and commentary that drive the outlooks of millions of uninformed consumers. This book argues for a wisdom that incorporates a reference for both knowledge and self-knowledge, as well as life experience and cultural traditions that have stood the test of time, all contributing to a framework in which we can navigate our lives.

Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486158322
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( 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."

Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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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 : Jessica Wahman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0739187988
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative Naturalism written by Jessica Wahman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative Naturalism: An Alternative Framework for Philosophy of Mind provides an original framework for a non-reductive approach to mind and philosophical psychology. Jessica Wahman challenges the reductive (i.e., mechanistic and physicalist) assumptions that render the mind-body problem intractable, and claims that George Santayana’s naturalism provides a more beneficial epistemological method and ontological framework for thinking about the place of consciousness in the natural world. She uses Santayana’s thought as the primary inspiration for her own specific viewpoint, one that draws on a variety of sources, from analytic philosophy of mind to existentialism and psychoanalysis. This outlook, narrative naturalism, depicts sense-making as a kind of storytelling where different narratives serve different purposes, and Wahman offer a unique worldview to accommodate a variety of true expressions about the world, including truths about subjective existence. Motivated by a desire to challenge the reductionist approaches that explain human motivation and experience in terms of neuroscience and by the increasingly pharmacological interpretations of and solutions to psychological problems, Wahman’s overarching purpose is to reconstruct the issue so that neuroscience can be embraced as an indispensable story among others in our understanding of the human condition. When placed in this context, neurobiological discoveries better serve the values and practices associated with human self-knowledge and well-being. Narrative Naturalism will appeal to those interested in American philosophy, Santayana scholarship, pragmatist epistemology, philosophy of mind, philosophical psychology, and metaphysics.

Author : George Santayana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( 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:

Author : George Santayana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Character & Opinion in the United States written by George Santayana and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: