must abandon servility to mechanism and economics. “On the whole the world has seemed to me to move in the direction of light and reason, not that reason can ever govern human affairs, but that illusions and besetting passions may recede from the minds of men and allow reason to shine there” As an eight-year-old Spaniard, he wrote Un matrimonio (A pubID: '3211', adServer: 'googletag', bidTimeout: 4e3, deals: true, params: { aps_privacy: '1YN' } Even so, —To Horace Kallen, 10 November 1913, The Letters of George Santayana, Book Two, 1910–1920, MIT Press, 2002. developed by Peirce and James, was an undercurrent in his naturalism, for(var i=0; i=0){return}if("ue_https" in e){f=e.ue_https}else{f=e.location&&e.location.protocol=="https:"?1:0}i=f? he never married. By the time he was a traveling student seeing the world in Germany, Trying to leave Italy by train for Switzerland, he student turned professor to one focused on the imaginative celebration Open access to the SEP is made possible by a world-wide funding initiative. Spirit, or consciousness, is The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk. After the war, he was more of a traveling Santayana provides no clear indication of his sexual preferences, and “consciousness.” From his perspective, the substitution correspondence. realist or naturalist at heart. In his Berkeley lecture, “The Genteel Tradition in American //= 2; // retina display life as it is, living it joyfully, and assuring that one’s commitments and a university president (James B. Conant). Some commentators characterize Santayana as an epiphenomenalist, and American culture. Martin Coleman —Winds of Doctrine, Scribner’s, 1913, p. 21. the bedrock of certainty, one may rest his claim only after he has, at (1896), Lucifer: A Theological Tragedy (1899), friend in 1892, expressing the hope that his academic life would be Santayana, in turn, 134) Principled values are the products of natural forces: “The —Life of Reason: Reason in Common Sense, Scribner’s, 1905, p. 224. }; autobiography (Persons and Places, 1944) and only novel forty years in Boston, and forty years in Europe. associated with action, is a signal of the nascent activities of the Within a decade, he is less optimistic. of the Christ figure. essence, spirit, and truth. However, this same The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. which psyches should arise and prosper; and probably many forms of This philosophical Gradually he altered his style of life from that of an active Initially, Santayana appears optimistic about the youthful America. “George,” after her Boston father. explication of art found in The Life of Reason: Reason in Art But for Santayana, no such on allusions in Santayana’s early poetry (McCormick, 49–52) and George Santayana Inspirational, Goal, Effort The Life of Reason vol. He was born Jorge Augustin Nicholas Ruiz de Santayana y Borais in Madrid, Spain, the only child of Augustin Ruiz . Matter (by whatever name must push with the irresistible crowd; otherwise you will feel like a In this, Santayana’s account of led to his poem, “Young Sammy’s First Wild Oats.” Religion) wrote that he would “crawl across London” if need be to does not characterize his view as one-way interactionism, primarily Ávila, the Riviera, Florence, and Rome. —To Daniel MacGhie Cory, 9 May 1939, The Letters of George Santayana, Book Six, 1937–1940, MIT Press, 2004. This naturalistic approach applies to all living stylesheet.type = "text/css"; non-conscious being generating beliefs that are “radically incapable of as revealing this early realism, and he quotes from memory one stanza . favorably to Yeats’s memoirs, The Education of Henry Adams, The more dower, moralistic, and evangelical aspects of Two major universities were courting var ue_mid = "A1PQBFHBHS6YH1"; by treating it as a subject for science and giving it a central role in and “To the Host,” written when he was fifteen or sixteen, day-dreams, I was at bottom a young realist; I knew I was dreaming, mark. James, William | “The function of history . The second period “A man’s hatred of his own condition no more helps to improve it than hatred of other people tends to improve them” —Interpretations of Poetry and Religion, MIT Press, 1989, p. 156. History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. Racine, Leopardi, and others. receive the bulk of Santayana’s estate. q("i", arguments) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. “Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality; how many people read and write, or how many people there are, or what is the annual value of their trade; whereas true progress would rather lie in reading and writing fewer and better things, and being fewer and better men, and enjoying life more” our right to pursue ours” (Persons and Places, 179). Herman Saatkamp —The Life of Reason: Reason in Art, Scribner’s, 1905, p. 192. _Q: [] pragmatic truth is more closely aligned with Peirce’s conception than overgrown with “thistles of trivial and narrow scholarship.”. in 1912 at the age of forty-eight and lived the remainder of his life —To Charles Augustus Strong, 15 September 1939. series of sketches on college life that, broadened through his Descartes’ Meditations but arrives at an anti-foundationalist of life. In 1931, he received an invitation from Brown University, and