George Santayana: 31 books

George Santayana’s renowned work of moral philosophy outlines his vision of the ideal life. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.   George Santayana’s The Life of Reason stands as one of the most influential and beautifully written works of philosophical naturalism....

George Santayana was one of the most influential twentieth-century philosophers. Because of his broad-ranging interests and lack of any permanent home in one particular country, he has often been stereotyped as a meditative philosopher removed from the world, living in what he himself called the "realm...

This volume contains a wonderful collection of poetry by George Santayana. This compendium consists mostly of Santayana’s sonnets and odes, but also contains a large number of miscellaneous poetry as well. The contents include: “Sonnets”, “On a Volume of Scholastic Philosophy”, “On the...

From antiquity to the present, many have written on the subject of beauty, but precious few have done so with the capacity themselves to write beautifully. The Sense of Beauty is that rare exception. This remarkable early work of the great American philosopher, George Santayana, features a quality...

The Best Works of George Santayana   Character and Opinion in the United Staes Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy The Life of Reason The Sense of Beauty Three Philosophical Poets Winds of Doctrine  

It is remarkably appropriate that this work on aesthetics should have been written by George Santayana, who is probably the most brilliant philosophic writer and the philosopher with the strongest sense of beauty since Plato. It is not a dry metaphysical treatise, as works on aesthetics so often are,...

This volume contains a collection of articles on the nature of America and of being American, composed from lectures originally addressed to British audiences by George Santayana. This fascinating collection, first published in 1921, will appeal to those with an interest in the development of America...

George Santayana was a novelist, poet, and philosopher.  Santayana was born in Spain but was raised and educated in the United States and is considered an American man of letters.  Santayana is credited for the popular phrase "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". The...

"In what must be ranked as a foremost classic of twentieth-century political philosophy, George Santayana, in the preface to his last major work prior to his death, makes plain the limits as well as the aims of Dominations and Powers: ""All that it professes to contain is glimpses of...

It is remarkably appropriate that this work on aesthetics should have been written by George Santayana, who is probably the most brilliant philosophic writer and the philosopher with the strongest sense of beauty since Plato. It is not a dry metaphysical treatise, as works on aesthetics so often are,...

George Santayana was a novelist, poet, and philosopher.  Santayana was born in Spain but was raised and educated in the United States and is considered an American man of letters.  Santayana is credited for the popular phrase "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". Character...

“I am no specialist in the study of Lucretius; I am not a Dante scholar nor a Goethe scholar….My excuse for writing about them, notwithstanding, is merely the human excuse which every new poet has for writing about the spring. They have attracted me; they have moved me to reflection; they have revealed...

George Santayana is an unequaled champion of emotional life and the value of pure contemplation and imaginative play. In his first philosophical book, The Sense of Beauty, Santayana elucidates how the contemplation of beautiful ideals invests our lives with meaning. His great achievement is to offer...