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The Life of Reason, Volume 7 - Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One (Paperback)
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The Life of Reason, Volume 7 - Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One (Paperback)
Series: Works of George Santayana
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Santayana argues that instinct and imagination are crucial to the
emergence of reason from chaos. 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. This Critical Edition,
volume VII of The Works of George Santayana, includes a chronology,
notes, bibliography, textual commentary, lists of variants, and
other tools useful to Santayana scholars. The other four books of
the volume include Reason in Society, Reason in Religion, Reason in
Art, and Reason in Science.
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