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Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy
George Santayana
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Before the beginning of World War II, during the time of the Modernist movement in philosophy, George Santayana wrote these five descriptive essays. He examined John Locke’s sensationalism, British Idealism, the “Theory of Relativity”, Freud’s psychology, and Julien Benda’s preachment on the relations between God and the world.
Before the beginning of World War II, during the time of the Modernist movement in philosophy, George Santayana wrote these five descriptive essays. He examined John Locke’s sensationalism, British Idealism, the “Theory of Relativity”, Freud’s psychology, and Julien Benda’s preachment on the relations between God and the world.
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Insightful, beautifully-written, a pleasure to read
Very insightful and eloquent book.
لقد تعرفت إلى سانتيانا بالصدفة، ولكنها صدفة خيرٌ من ألف ميعاد.
هذا الكتاب الصغير في حجمه والضخم جدًّا بما يحتويه من أفكار ومعانٍ وبلاغة، أعتبره دون أدنى مبالغة ملخّصًا لعقل سانتيانا ونسقه الفلسفي وربما هو بمثابة عرض تشويقي يحفز كل من يقرؤه على قراءة سانتيانا الذي قال
A beautiful testimony of Santayana's philosophical brilliance. His deep understanding of regional boundaries of thought, their historicity and contextual place from tradition makes this -also- a document every student of Philosophy and lay people should read to take a cultivated guess at proper phil
Most of it was about Locke and how Locke clashed with Descartes (or was it Spinoza?). Then there was a bit about Eastern influences on the idea of God. Like Borges, Santayana is one of those rare atheists that is willing to walk a mile with religious thoughts.