Introduction, and Reason in common sense
Author | : George Santayana |
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Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
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Author | : George Santayana |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
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Author | : George Santayana |
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Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
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Author | : George Santayana |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 1062 |
Release | : 2019-11-20 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
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"The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress" by George Santayana consists of Reason in Common Sense, Reason in Society, Reason in Religion, Reason in Art, and Reason in Science. The work is considered to be the most complete expression of Santayana's moral philosophy, which is strongly influenced by the materialism of Democritus and the refined ethics of Aristotle, with a special emphasis on the natural development of ideal ends.
Author | : George Santayana |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
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Author | : George Santayana |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0262016745 |
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 |
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Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2008-12-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781437868364 |
Author | : Thomas Paine |
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Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1918 |
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Author | : George Santayana |
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Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
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Author | : George Santayana |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
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Author | : Pavel Gregoric |
Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2007-06-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191608491 |
Apart from using our eyes to see and our ears to hear, we regularly and effortlessly perform a number of complex perceptual operations that cannot be explained in terms of the five senses taken individually. Such operations include, for example, perceiving that the same object is white and sweet, noticing the difference between white and sweet, or knowing that one's senses are active. Observing that lower animals must be able to perform such operations, and being unprepared to ascribe any share in rationality to them, Aristotle explained such operations with reference to a higher-order perceptual capacity which unites and monitors the five senses. This capacity is known as the 'common sense' or sensus communis. Unfortunately, Aristotle provides only scattered and opaque references to this capacity. It is hardly surprising, therefore, that the exact nature and functions of this capacity have been a matter of perennial controversy. Pavel Gregoric offers an extensive and compelling treatment of the Aristotelian conception of the common sense, which has become part and parcel of Western psychological theories from antiquity through to the Middle Ages, and well into the early modern period. Aristotle on the Common Sense begins with an introduction to Aristotle's theory of perception and sets up a conceptual framework for the interpretation of textual evidence. In addition to analysing those passages which make explicit mention of the common sense, and drawing out the implications for Aristotle's terminology, Gregoric provides a detailed examination of each function of this Aristotelian faculty.