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This book is available either individually, or as part of the
specially-priced Arguments of the Philosphers Collection.
First published in 1970, Facts, Words and Beliefs is concerned
primarily with formulating the following question and suggesting
the right way of answering it- how can a few stray images or
muttered words running through our mind constitute our envisagement
of situation perhaps remote in time and place from our present
position? From a practical point of view the moments when we
envisage the nature of some situation which we believe to exist may
not be of any great importance. It would seem that our belief in
the existence of such situations lies in some sort of adjustment of
our behaviour to them which will be useful if the situations really
exist, from the point of view of survival and comfort. The author
suggests that these moments of conscious envisagement of such
absent situations may be rather a sign of such successful
adjustment than a factor in bringing it about, hence of no
practical value in themselves. However, if knowledge has any sort
of intrinsic value, it must surely lie in those moments when one
does consciously envisage some aspects of the world more or less as
it really is, and to try to understand the nature of these moments
is to try to understand all that is of intrinsic value in
knowledge. This book is a must read for scholars and researchers of
philosophy.
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Santayana (Hardcover)
Timothy L.S. Sprigge; Edited by Ted Honderich
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R4,150
Discovery Miles 41 500
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This classic study of Santayana was the first book to appear in the
Arguments of the Philosophers series. Growing interest in the work
of this important American philosopher has prompted this new
edition of the book complete with a new preface by the author
reassessing his own ideas about Santayana and reflecting the new
interest in the philosopher's work. A select bibliography of works
published about Santayana since the book's first appearance is also
included.
First published in 1999. The purpose of this series is to provide a
contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of
philosophical thought. Each book constitutes a detailed, critical
introduction to the work of a philosopher of major influence and
significance. The arguments of the philosophers take on many
differing forms. Those of George Santayana bear little similarity
to what we find today in the Journal of Philosophy: indeed, some
have been misled by his imagery and splendid prose style to believe
that no arguments are being made at all in Santayana's many books.
Timothy Sprigge's gift is an ability to draw clear ties between
these writings and important contemporary issues, and to show that
Santayana makes a contribution to today's arguments.
This classic study of Santayana was the first book to appear in the
Arguments of the Philosophers series. Growing interest in the work
of this important American philosopher has prompted this new
edition of the book complete with a new preface by the author
reassessing his own ideas about Santayana and reflecting the new
interest in the philosopher's work. A select bibliography of works
published about Santayana since the book's first appearance is also
included.
Timothy Sprigge was one of the leading exponents of philosophical
idealism in the last fifty years. His scholarly work in the history
of modern philosophy focused on Baruch Spinoza, William James,
Josiah Royce, George Santayana, F. H. Bradley, Arthur Schopenhauer,
Edmund Husserl, and Alfred North Whitehead: this eventually led to
the construction of his own original system of metaphysics he
called 'panpsychistic absolute idealism'. Idealism, long
unfashionable, has been coming back into favour, and Sprigge's work
has found a new readership. This selection of his finest essays
ranges widely over metaphysics, ethics, and the history of
philosophy: all the themes that he discusses are drawn together in
his unique philosophical system, based upon his original theory of
the nature of consciousness.
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