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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…
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The Life of Reason, Volume 7: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One Hardcover - 2011
by George Santayana; Marianne S. Wokeck (Editor); Martin A. Coleman (Editor)
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- Title The Life of Reason, Volume 7: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One
- Author George Santayana; Marianne S. Wokeck (Editor); Martin A. Coleman (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition critical edition
- Pages 408
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher MIT Press
- Date 2011-08
- ISBN 9780262016742 / 0262016745
- Weight 1.49 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Dimensions 9.13 x 6.36 x 0.95 in (23.19 x 16.15 x 2.41 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Philosophy
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011007502
- Dewey Decimal Code 191
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