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Physical Order and Moral Liberty - Previously Unpublished Essays of George Santayana (Paperback)
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Physical Order and Moral Liberty - Previously Unpublished Essays of George Santayana (Paperback)
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This book is a collection of fifty-five essays and fragments by
George Santayana, from the Santayana collections of the Columbia
University Library and the Humanities Research Center at the
University of Texas. Although the essay included are largely
philosophical in nature, none is narrowly technical. The general
reader should be able to understand most of the pieces, as well as
enjoy their literary quality and profit by the insights and wisdom
they provide. The philosopher may draw courage from the speculative
spirit of the essays and benefit by Santayana's steadfast vision
and his sensitivity to distinctions. For the serious student of
Santayana's thought, this volume will prove indispensable. It
contains sustained philosophical studies of causation (the only
ones by Santayana anywhere), substantial elaborations of
Santayana's ideas on the relation of sensation to thought, and
reflections on the nature of freedom and the spiritual life. In
addition, Santayana develops here a new theory of "critical
instants" and elaborates on his ideas of the nature of
consciousness and its relations to time. Sections on the philosophy
of nature and the philosophy of mind are followed by groups of
essays on ethics, the philosophy of politics, and the freedom of
mind--in which, according to Santayana, the blessing of the good
life consists. The book concludes with brief notes on Bergson,
Democritus, and Leibniz and a longer essay on the thought of
Vaihinger.
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