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His philosophical works embrace The Sense of Magnificence (1896), The Lifetime of Trigger (1905–6), The Realms of Being (4 vol., 1927–forty), and Dominations and Powers (1951). His single novel, The Ultimate Puritan (1935), had essential success. George Santayana Pdf, epub, docx and torrent then this site is not for you.
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A complete system of naturalist philosophy in four volumes: The Realm of Matter; The Realm of Essence; The Realm of Truth; The Realm of Spirit. An underappreciate 20th century masterwork.
Published October 28th 1972 by Cooper Square Publishers (first published 1942)
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George Santayana wrote the four volumes of The Realms of Being over a period of about twenty years. The first volume, The Realm of Essence, was published in 1927 after several years of work; and the last volume did not appear until 1942. When published together, the work fills some 850 dense pages, making it comparable in bulk and bearing with The Phenomenology of Spirit, Being and Time, Being and Nothingness, and other metaph..more
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The ontologically distinct realms of experience that Santayana lays out are a fascinating approach to the workings of the natural world. His pragmatism is on full display as he works through how the realms of Matter, Essence, Spirit and Truth interact and overlap in animal life.
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Philosopher, poet, literary and cultural critic, George Santayana is a principal figure in Classical American Philosophy. His naturalism and emphasis on creative imagination were harbingers of important intellectual turns on both sides of the Atlantic. He was a naturalist before naturalism grew popular; he appreciated multiple perfections before multiculturalism became an issue; he thought of phil..more
“Wisdom lies in voluntary finitude and a timely change of heart: until maturity, multiplying the inclusions, up to the limit of natural faculty and moral harmony; afterwards, gladly relinquishing zone after zone of vegetation, and letting the snow-peak of integrity rise to what height it may.” — 5 likes
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Santayana builds on his Skepticism and Animal Faith, which he described as a sort of precursor to 'a new system of philosophy', that would be developed fully in the present work.[1] He defines four realms of being; The Realm of Essence, The Realm of Matter, The Realm of Truth, and The Realm of Spirit.
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Realms[edit]
The Realm of Essence[edit]
The Realm of Essence, in Santayana's view, has a type of primacy over the other realms. To him, essence is anything that is or has a character—this includes thoughts, imaginings, derivations of logic, and material objects. Nothing can be experienced but through these essences, and they 'are the only things people ever see, and the last they notice.' Essence is awareness, it is different from knowledge or from faith, which he defines later.
The Realm of Matter[edit]
Matter is the objective, material stuff of the universe. Staying true to his materialism, Santayana holds matter as the 'primordial existential flux' and believes it can be, at least in some sense, known. His conception of matter is similar to Spinoza's substance; matter has no purpose, but constitutes the limitations of what can be. Humans can know matter only from a distance, symbolically:
Ecotect 2011 keygen torrent. Matter is in fact referred to by Santayana as a “metaphor” only, producing one of the more provocative aspects of his philosophy: science is no less literary than poetry in representing matter in that it must express its truths at a remove, through the lens of human bias.
— -Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Thus, while Santayana reveres and deeply respects science (and believes it useful for everyday experiences), he does not deify it in the way many other philosophers of the 20th century have, and he limits it to a fallible approximation of truth.
The Realm of Truth[edit]
The Realm of Truth was thought of well after Santayana had thought of his other three realms; he envisions it as a sort of subdivision of the Realm of Essence. Truth is that part of the Realm of Essences instantiated by matter; indeed, he says:
“ | Truth is the furrow which matter must plow upon the face of essence. | ” |
As the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Santayana says:
All events that take place entail concatenations of essences elected by matter for appearance in the course of human life, and their objective relations—factual arrangement, for example, that the terrorist attacks in America in 2001 took place on September 11th rather than the 12th—introduce the possibility of truth for human understanding
Santayana here departs from classical pragmatists, of whom he is often considered one, in that he believes truth has a strong element outside of experience, and must coincide with what actually is. Advanced folder encryption 6.75 licence key shower.
The Realm of Spirit[edit]
Spirit is, as used by Santayana, very much akin to consciousness; it is, according to John Lachs, 'that part of a life constituted by its series of intuitions'. Santayana believes that the mind is more accustomed to essence than it is to fact, and, as such, consciousness may at times manifest things that are not fact. Herein is to be found the Realm of Spirit; it is Santayana's attempt to reconcile the theories of Plato and the demands of reason.[2]
See also[edit]
- The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Entry on Santayana by Matthew C. Flamm.
References[edit]
- ^Durant, Will. The Story of Philosophy Simon & Schuster, 1923.
- ^Flamm, Matthew C. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: George Santayana 2006
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