Scepticism and Animal Faith
Author | : George Santayana |
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Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Belief and doubt |
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Author | : George Santayana |
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Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Belief and doubt |
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Author | : George Santayana |
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Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 1929 |
Genre | : Belief and doubt |
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Author | : Santayana George |
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Release | : 1901 |
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ISBN | : 9780259629771 |
Author | : George Santayana |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2019-07-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781684223725 |
2019 Reprint of 1923 Edition. Scepticism and Animal Faith marks an important departure from his Santayana's philosophy and serves as "a critical introduction" to and résumé of his new system developed in the four-volume Realms of Being (1928, 1930, 1937, 1940), an ontological (nature of being) treatise of great concentration and finish. In these later works Santayana enhanced his stature as a philosopher by achieving greater theoretical precision, depth, and coherence. Scepticism and Animal Faith conveys better than any other volume the essential import of his philosophy. It formulates his theory of immediately apprehended essences and describes the role played by "animal faith" in various forms of knowledge. Contents There is no first principle of criticism -- Dogma and doubt -- Wayward scepticism -- Doubts about self-consciousness -- Doubts about change -- Ultimate scepticism -- Nothing given exists -- Some authorities for this conclusion -- The discovery of essence -- Some uses of this discovery -- The watershed of criticism -- Identity and duration attributed to essences -- Belief in demonstration -- Essence and intuition -- Belief in experience -- Belief in the self -- The cognitive claims of memory -- Knowledge is faith mediated by symbols -- Belief in substance -- On some objections to belief in substance -- Sublimations of animal faith -- Belief in nature -- Evidences of animation in nature -- Literary psychology -- The implied being of truth -- Discernment of spirit -- Comparison with other criticisms of knowledge.
Author | : Professor George Santayana |
Publisher | : Scholar's Choice |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2015-02-20 |
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ISBN | : 9781298458261 |
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Author | : George Santayana |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-10-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780266494522 |
Excerpt from Scepticism and Animal Faith: Introduction to a System of Philosophy Moreover, my system, save in the mocking literary sense of the word, is not metaphysical. It contains much criticism of metaphysics, and some refinements in speculation, like the doctrine of essence, which are not familiar to the public; and I do not disclaim being metaphysical because I at all dislike dialectic or disdain immaterial things: indeed, it is of im material things, essence, truth, and spirit that I speak chiefly. But logic and mathematics and literary psychology (when frankly literary) are not meta physical, although their subject-matter is immaterial, and their application to existing things is often questionable. Metaphysics, in the proper sense of the word, is dialectical physics, or an attempt to determine matters of fact by means of logical or moral or rhetorical constructions. It arises by a confusion of those Realms of Being which it is my special care to distinguish. It is neither physical speculation nor pure logic nor honest literature, but (as in the treatise of Aristotle first called b that name) a hybrid of the three, materialising idealy entities, turning harmonies into forces, and dissolving natural things into terms of discourse. Speculations about the natural world, such as those of the Ionian philosophers, are not metaphysics, but simply cosmology or natural philo sophy. Now in natural philosophy I am a decided materialist - apparently the only one living and I am well aware that idealists are fond of calling materialism, too, metaphysics, in rather an angry tone, so as to cast discredit upon it by assimilating it to their own systems. But my materialism, for all that, is not metaphysical. I do not profess to know what matter is in itself, and feel no confidence in the divination of those esprits forts who, leading a life of vice, thought the universe must be composed of nothing but diceviii scepticism and animal faith. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : George 1863-1952 Santayana |
Publisher | : Hassell Street Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2021-09-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781013955235 |
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Author | : George Santayana |
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Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
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ISBN | : 9781258915568 |
This is a new release of the original 1923 edition.
Author | : Santayana George |
Publisher | : Scholar's Choice |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2015-02-19 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781298326201 |
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Author | : George Santayana |
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Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1972 |
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