The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress
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- Synopsis
- A poet and literary critic as well as a philosopher, Santayana made significant contributions to aesthetics, primarily through the publication of his earliest major work in this area, The Sense of Beauty (1896), which focuses on the imaginative life of humanity rather than on the underlying structures of reality or on humankind's methods of grasping reality. This theme is continued and expanded upon in his most famous work, The Life of Reason. Santayana retained a naturalistic approach in all his writing, holding that everything ideal has a natural basis and that everything natural has an ideal development.
- Copyright:
- 1998
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 518 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781573922104
- Publisher:
- Prometheus Books
- Date of Addition:
- 10/27/09
- Copyrighted By:
- Prometheus Books
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Philosophy
- Submitted By:
- Daproim Africa
- Proofread By:
- Daproim Africa
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.