The Life Of Reason

Author : George Santayana
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262016742

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The Life of Reason by George Santayana Pdf

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.

Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCSD:31822015531437

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Introduction, and Reason in common sense by George Santayana Pdf

Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1356056423

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The Life of Reason; Or, the Phases of Human Progress Volume 4 by George Santayana Pdf

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 : Ernst Pawel
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429933339

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The Nightmare of Reason by Ernst Pawel Pdf

A comprehensive and interpretative biography of Franz Kafka that is both a monumental work of scholarship and a vivid, lively evocation of Kafka's world.

Author : Ingmar Persson
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199276905

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The Retreat of Reason by Ingmar Persson Pdf

One of the main original aims of philosophy was to give us guidance about how to live our lives. The ancient Greeks typically assumed that a life led in accordance with reason, a rational life, would also be the happiest or most fulfilling. Ingmar Persson's book resumes this project, which has been largely neglected in contemporary philosophy. But his conclusions are very different; by exploring the irrationality of our attitudes to time, our identity, and our responsibility,Persson shows that the aim of living rationally conflicts not only with the aim of leading the most fulfilling life, but also with the moral aim of promoting the maximization and just distribution of fulfilment for all. Persson also argues that neither the aim of living rationally nor any of the fulfilmentaims can be rejected as less rational than any other. We thus face a dilemma of either having to enter a retreat of reason, insulated from everyday attitudes, or making reason retreat from its aspiration to be the sole controller of our attitudes.The Retreat of Reason explores three areas in which there is a conflict between the rational life and a life dedicated to maximization of fulfilment. Persson contends that living rationally requires us to give up, first, our temporal biases; secondly, our bias towards ourselves; and, thirdly, our responsibility to the extent that it involves the notion of desert and desert-entailing notions. But giving up these attitudes is so overwhelmingly hard that the effort to do so not only makesour own lives less fulfilling, but also obstructs our efficient pursuit of the moral aim of promoting a maximum of justly distributed fulfilment.Ingmar Persson brings back to philosophy the ambition of offering a broad vision of the human condition. The Retreat of Reason challenges and disturbs some of our most fundamental ideas about ourselves.

Author : Andrew Feenberg
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780674971783

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Technosystem by Andrew Feenberg Pdf

We live in a world of technical systems designed in accordance with technical disciplines and operated by technically trained personnel—a unique social organization that largely determines our way of life. Andrew Feenberg’s theory of social rationality represents both the threats of technocratic modernity and the potential for democratic change.

Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1016669372

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The Life of Reason; Or, The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana Pdf

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 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. 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 : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1724773194

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The Life of Reason Volume 1 by George Santayana Pdf

The Life of Reason Volume 1 By George Santayana This Dover edition, first published in 1980, is an unabridged republication of volume one of The Life of Reason; or the Phases of Human Progress, originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1905. This volume contains the general introduction to the entire five-volume series We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : OSU:32435014755367

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Reason in Art by George Santayana Pdf

Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262016745

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The Life of Reason, Or, The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana Pdf

Author : James Warren
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781107025448

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The Pleasures of Reason in Plato, Aristotle, and the Hellenistic Hedonists by James Warren Pdf

How did ancient philosophers understand the relationship between human capacities for thinking and our experiences of pleasure and pain?

Author : Greg Scherkoske
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107354746

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Integrity and the Virtues of Reason by Greg Scherkoske Pdf

Many people have claimed that integrity requires sticking to one's convictions come what may. Greg Scherkoske challenges this claim, arguing that it creates problems in distinguishing integrity from fanaticism, close-mindedness or mere inertia. Rather, integrity requires sticking to one's convictions to the extent that they are justifiable and likely to be correct. In contrast to traditional views of integrity, Scherkoske contends that it is an epistemic virtue intimately connected to what we know and have reason to believe, rather than an essentially moral virtue connected to our values. He situates integrity in the context of shared cognitive and practical agency and shows that the relationship between integrity and impartial morality is not as antagonistic as many have thought - which has important implications for the 'integrity objection' to impartial moral theories. This original and provocative study will be of great interest to advanced students and scholars of ethics.

Author : Matthew J. Kisner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139500098

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Spinoza on Human Freedom by Matthew J. Kisner Pdf

Spinoza was one of the most influential figures of the Enlightenment, but his often obscure metaphysics makes it difficult to understand the ultimate message of his philosophy. Although he regarded freedom as the fundamental goal of his ethics and politics, his theory of freedom has not received sustained, comprehensive treatment. Spinoza holds that we attain freedom by governing ourselves according to practical principles, which express many of our deepest moral commitments. Matthew J. Kisner focuses on this theory and presents an alternative picture of the ethical project driving Spinoza's philosophical system. His study of the neglected practical philosophy provides an accessible and concrete picture of what it means to live as Spinoza's ethics envisioned.

Author : Chris Gabbard
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807060582

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A Life Beyond Reason by Chris Gabbard Pdf

An unflinching and luminous memoir that explores a father’s philosophical transformation when he must reconsider the questions what makes us human? and whose life is worth living? Before becoming a father, Chris Gabbard was a fast-track academic finishing his doctoral dissertation at Stanford. A disciple of Enlightenment thinkers, he was a devotee of reason, believed in the reliability of science, and lived by the dictum that an unexamined life is not worth living. That is, until his son August was born. Despite his faith that modern medicine would not fail him, August was born with a severe traumatic brain injury as a likely result of medical error and lived as a spastic quadriplegic who was cortically blind, profoundly cognitively impaired, and nonverbal. While Gabbard tried to uncover what went wrong during the birth and adjusted to his new role raising a child with multiple disabilities, he began to rethink his commitment to Enlightenment thinkers—who would have concluded that his son was doomed to a life of suffering. But August was a happy child who brought joy to just about everyone he met in his 14 years of life—and opened up Gabbard’s capacity to love. Ultimately, he comes to understand that his son is undeniably a person deserving of life. A Life Beyond Reason will challenge readers to reexamine their beliefs about who is deserving of humanity.

Author : Todd May
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226235707

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A Significant Life by Todd May Pdf

“A tour de force. It is a thoughtful, subtle, beautifully written discussion of what it takes to live a meaningful life.” —Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice Throughout history most of us have looked to faith, relationships, or deeds to give our lives purpose. But in A Significant Life, philosopher Todd May offers an exhilarating new way of thinking about meaning, one deeply attuned to life as it actually is: a work in progress, a journey—and often a narrative. Offering moving accounts of his own life alongside rich engagements with philosophers from Aristotle to Heidegger, he shows us where to find the significance of our lives: in the way we live them. May starts by looking at the fundamental fact that life unfolds over time, and as it does so, it begins to develop certain qualities, certain themes. Our lives can be marked by intensity, curiosity, perseverance, or many other qualities that become guiding narrative values. These values lend meanings to our lives that are distinct from—but also interact with—the universal values we are taught to cultivate, such as goodness or happiness. Offering a fascinating examination of a broad range of figures—from music icon Jimi Hendrix to civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer, from cyclist Lance Armstrong to The Portrait of a Lady’s Ralph Touchett to Claus von Stauffenberg, a German officer who tried to assassinate Hitler—May shows that narrative values offer a rich variety of criteria by which to assess a life, specific to each of us and yet widely available. They offer us a way of reading ourselves, who we are, and who we might like to be.