The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One (Critical Edition) (The Works of George Santayana)
by Santayana, George
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Cambridge MA: The MIT Press, 2011. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright blue dust jacket, 344 pages. 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. Clean copy. Record # 384214
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- The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One (Critical Edition) (The Works of George Santayana)
- Author
- Santayana, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0262016745
- ISBN 13
- 9780262016742
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge MA
- Date Published
- 2011
- Keywords
- Religion & Philosophy, Philosophy, , .
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