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Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781412819404
Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781473375338
This volume contains a collection of articles on the nature of America and of being American, composed from lectures originally addressed to British audiences by George Santayana. This fascinating collection, first published in 1921, will appeal to those with an interest in the development of America and its philosophy, and is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Santayana’s work. The chapters of this book include: “The Moral Background”, “The Academic Environment”, “William James”, “Josiah Royce”, “Later Speculations”, “Materialism and Idealism in American Life”, and “English Liberty in America”. George Santayana (1863 - 1952) was an influential philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. He was brought up in the United States and called himself an American, despite the fact that he always made sure that he had a valid Spanish passport. Many vintage texts such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now, in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned biography of the author.
Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351529389
George Santayana was one of the most influential twentieth-century philosophers. Because of his broad-ranging interests and lack of any permanent home in one particular country, he has often been stereotyped as a meditative philosopher removed from the world, living in what he himself called the "realm of spirit" among eternal essences. While there is some truth in this characterization, it is also true that Santayana was a penetrating analyst and critic of contemporary societies.'Character and Opinion in the United States' is his comprehensive critique of American thought and civilization and reflects the detached cosmopolitan perspective that lent his criticism its characteristic objectivity and strength. Santayana's subject here is the conflict of materialism and idealism in American life. In his view there exists a dualism in the American mind: One side, dealing with religion, literature, philosophy, and morality, tended to stay with inherited, old doctrines-the genteel tradition-and failed to keep pace with the other, practical side and its new developments in industry, invention, and social organization. Santayana traces the first mentality to Calvinism and its sense of sin, an attitude out of keeping with a new civilization and the dominance of practical interests. As a consequence of separating philosophy from everyday life, its study merely served religious and moral interests cut off from the free search for truth. At the heart of the book is Santayana's examination of the influential thought of William James and Josiah Royce, who typified for him the dilemma of American thought. The subordination of thought to social form and custom underlies Santayana's sharp critique of academic philosophy at Harvard where he early on studied and taught. He was disturbed by the very idea of philosophy as an academic discipline. Philosophy, he felt, should be an individual, original creation, "something dark, perilous, untested, and not ripe to be taught" Santayana's analysis of how social imperatives may impede the pursuit of knowledge remains pertinent to contemporary intellectual debate. This volume ill be of interest to philosophers, intellectual historians, and American studies specialists.
Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1297234774
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Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0469923814
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Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1528467787
Excerpt from Character Opinion in the United States: With Reminiscences of William James and Josiah Royce and Academic Life in America The major part of this book is composed of lectures originally addressed to British audiences. I have added a good deal, but I make no apology, now that the whole may fall under American eyes, for preserving the tone and attitude of a detached observer. Not at all on the ground that to see our selves as others see us would be to see ourselves truly; on the contrary, I agree with Spinoza where he says that other people's idea of a man is apt to be a better expression of their nature than of his. I accept this principle in the present instance, and am willing it should be applied to the judgements contained in this book, in which the reader may see chiefly expressions of my own feelings and hints of my own opinions. Only an American - and I am not one except by long association 1 - can speak for the heart. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : George Santayana
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1505491568
"[...]thinly peopled continents open to those who are more attached to what might or should be than to what already is. Americans are eminently prophets; they apply morals to public affairs; they are impatient and enthusiastic. Their judgements have highly speculative implications, which they often make explicit; they are men with principles, and fond of stating them. Moreover, they have an intense self-reliance; to exercise private judgement is not only a habit with them but a conscious duty. Not seldom personal conversions and mystical experiences throw their ingrained faith into novel forms, which may be very bold and radical. They are traditionally exercised[...]".
Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Philosophy, American
ISBN : 0722273266
Author : Professor George Santayana
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1297022270
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Trieste Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0649425375
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Author : Henry Cabot Lodge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Puritans
ISBN : UOM:39015024270236
Author : United States. Supreme Court
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1382 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : CUB:U183019716383
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1156 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN : HARVARD:HL5QXF
Author : Nicholas St. John Green
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Criminal law
ISBN : UCAL:$B289569
Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 1320 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781613105009
Amongst the novel objects that attracted my attention during my stay in the United States, nothing struck me more forcibly than the general equality of conditions. I readily discovered the prodigious influence which this primary fact exercises on the whole course of society, by giving a certain direction to public opinion, and a certain tenor to the laws; by imparting new maxims to the governing powers, and peculiar habits to the governed. I speedily perceived that the influence of this fact extends far beyond the political character and the laws of the country, and that it has no less empire over civil society than over the Government; it creates opinions, engenders sentiments, suggests the ordinary practices of life, and modifies whatever it does not produce. The more I advanced in the study of American society, the more I perceived that the equality of conditions is the fundamental fact from which all others seem to be derived, and the central point at which all my observations constantly terminated. I then turned my thoughts to our own hemisphere, where I imagined that I discerned something analogous to the spectacle which the New World presented to me. I observed that the equality of conditions is daily progressing towards those extreme limits which it seems to have reached in the United States, and that the democracy which governs the American communities appears to be rapidly rising into power in Europe. I hence conceived the idea of the book which is now before the reader. It is evident to all alike that a great democratic revolution is going on amongst us; but there are two opinions as to its nature and consequences. To some it appears to be a novel accident, which as such may still be checked; to others it seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient, and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history. Let us recollect the situation of France seven hundred years ago, when the territory was divided amongst a small number of families, who were the owners of the soil and the rulers of the inhabitants; the right of governing descended with the family inheritance from generation to generation; force was the only means by which man could act on man, and landed property was the sole source of power. Soon, however, the political power of the clergy was founded, and began to exert itself: the clergy opened its ranks to all classes, to the poor and the rich, the villein and the lord; equality penetrated into the Government through the Church, and the being who as a serf must have vegetated in perpetual bondage took his place as a priest in the midst of nobles, and not infrequently above the heads of kings. The different relations of men became more complicated and more numerous as society gradually became more stable and more civilized. Thence the want of civil laws was felt; and the order of legal functionaries soon rose from the obscurity of the tribunals and their dusty chambers, to appear at the court of the monarch, by the side of the feudal barons in their ermine and their mail. Whilst the kings were ruining themselves by their great enterprises, and the nobles exhausting their resources by private wars, the lower orders were enriching themselves by commerce. The influence of money began to be perceptible in State affairs. The transactions of business opened a new road to power, and the financier rose to a station of political influence in which he was at once flattered and despised. Gradually the spread of mental acquirements, and the increasing taste for literature and art, opened chances of success to talent; science became a means of government, intelligence led to social power, and the man of letters took a part in the affairs of the State. The value attached to the privileges of birth decreased in the exact proportion in which new paths were struck out to advancement. In the eleventh century nobility was beyond all price; in the thirteenth it might be purchased; it was conferred for the first time in 1270; and equality was thus introduced into the Government by the aristocracy itself.
