Life of Reason volume 1

by George Santayana

35 chapters9h 48mEnglish1906

About this book

The Life of Reason, subtitled "the Phases of Human Progress", is a book published in five volumes from 1905 to 1906, by Spanish-born American philosopher George Santayana (1863-1952). It consists of Reason in Common Sense, Reason in Society, Reason in Religion, Reason in Art, and Reason in Science. The work is considered to be the most complete expression of Santayana's moral philosophy [...]. Santayana's philosophy is strongly influenced by the materialism of Democritus and the refined ethics of Aristotle, with a special emphasis on the natural development of ideal ends. The Life of Reason is sometimes considered to be one of the most poetic and well-written works of philosophy in Western history. To supply but a single example, the oft-quoted aphorism of Santayana's, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," may be found on p. 284 of Reason in Common Sense. (Introduction by Wikipedia)

Chapters (35)

1Introduction (all volumes), part 1

784

2Introduction (all volumes), part 2

976

3Introduction (all volumes), part 3

994

4Introduction (all volumes), part 4

1033

5Volume I: Reason in Common Sense. Chapter 1: The Birth of Reason, part 1

725

6Volume I: Reason in Common Sense. Chapter 1: The Birth of Reason, part 2

761

7Volume I: Reason in Common Sense. Chapter 2: First Steps and First Fluctuations, part 1

951

8Volume I: Reason in Common Sense. Chapter 2: First Steps and First Fluctuations, part 2

867

9Volume I: Reason in Common Sense. Chapter 3: The Discovery of Natural Objects, part 1

1202

10Volume I: Reason in Common Sense. Chapter 3: The Discovery of Natural Objects, part 2

1231

11Volume I: Reason in Common Sense. Chapter 4: On Some Critics of this Discovery, part 1

1315

12Volume I: Reason in Common Sense. Chapter 4: On Some Critics of this Discovery, part 2

1152

13Volume I: Reason in Common Sense. Chapter 4: On Some Critics of this Discovery, part 3

945

14Volume I: Reason in Common Sense. Chapter 4: On Some Critics of this Discovery, part 4

923

15Volume I: Reason in Common Sense. Chapter 5: Nature Unified and Mind Discerned, part 1

1035

16Volume I: Reason in Common Sense. Chapter 5: Nature Unified and Mind Discerned, part 2

1308

17Volume I: Reason in Common Sense. Chapter 6: Discovery of Fellow-minds, part 1

876

18Volume I: Reason in Common Sense. Chapter 6: Discovery of Fellow-minds, part 2

1054

19Volume I: Reason in Common Sense. Chapter 6: Discovery of Fellow-minds, part 3

936

20Volume I: Reason in Common Sense. Chapter 7: Concretions in Discourse and Existence, part 1

840

21Volume I: Reason in Common Sense. Chapter 7: Concretions in Discourse and Existence, part 2

1092

22Volume I: Reason in Common Sense. Chapter 7: Concretions in Discourse and Existence, part 3

992

23Volume I: Reason in Common Sense. Chapter 8: On the Relative Value of Things and Ideas, part 1

1240

24Volume I: Reason in Common Sense. Chapter 8: On the Relative Value of Things and Ideas, part 2

1257

25Volume I: Reason in Common Sense. Chapter 9: How Thought is Practical, part 1

1010

26Volume I: Reason in Common Sense. Chapter 9: How Thought is Practical, part 2

1078

27Volume I: Reason in Common Sense. Chapter 9: How Thought is Practical, part 3

877

28Volume I: Reason in Common Sense. Chapter 9: How Thought is Practical, part 4

929

29Volume I: Reason in Common Sense. Chapter 10: The Measure of Values in Reflection, part 1

1192

30Volume I: Reason in Common Sense. Chapter 10: The Measure of Values in Reflection, part 2

1276

31Volume I: Reason in Common Sense. Chapter 11: Some Abstract Conditions of the Ideal, part 1

600

32Volume I: Reason in Common Sense. Chapter 11: Some Abstract Conditions of the Ideal, part 2

942

33Volume I: Reason in Common Sense. Chapter 12: Flux and Constancy in Human Nature, part 1

962

34Volume I: Reason in Common Sense. Chapter 12: Flux and Constancy in Human Nature, part 2

962

35Volume I: Reason in Common Sense. Chapter 12: Flux and Constancy in Human Nature, part 3

1005

Life of Reason volume 1

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