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The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress

Hardcover • 2016 • 1. edition

The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress

By George Santayana

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About the book

The final book in Santayana's masterwork of philosophical naturalism argues that science crowns the life of reason.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 ideals. It is a capacity he exhibits as he articulates a continuity running through animal impulse,...Show more

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9780262035286

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MIT Press Ltd

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2016

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