The Essential Santayana

by Coleman, Martin A.

• ISBN13: 9780253221056
• ISBN10: 0253221056
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-05
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

Santayana's most important writings collected in one volume

Author Biography

Martin A. Coleman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Associate Editor of the Santayana Edition at Indiana University--Purdue University Indianapolis.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Chronology of the Life and Work of George Santayana	p. xv
Bibliographical Abbreviations	p. xix
About This Book	p. xxv
Introduction: The Essential Santayana	p. xxvii
Autobiography	p. 1
A General Confession (1940)	p. 4
My Place, Time, and Ancestry (1944)	p. 23
Epilogue on My Host, The World (1949)	p. 30
Skepticism and Ontology	p. 39
Philosophical Heresy (1915)	p. 44
Preface [Scepticism and Animal Faith] (1923)	p. 51
There Is No First Principle of Criticism (1923)	p. 55
Dogma and Doubt (1923)	p. 58
Wayward Scepticism (1923)	p. 61
Ultimate Scepticism (1923)	p. 67
Nothing Given Exists (1923)	p. 72
The Discovery of Essence (1923)	p. 76
The Watershed of Criticism (1923)	p. 82
Knowledge Is Faith Mediated by Symbols (1923)	p. 88
Belief in Substance (1923)	p. 98
Literary Psychology (1923)	p. 104
The Implied Being of Truth (1923)	p. 110
Comparison with Other Criticisms of Knowledge (1923)	p. 116
Normal Madness (1925)	p. 128
Some Meanings of the Word "Is" (1924)	p. 138
Preface to Realms of Being (1927)	p. 149
Various Approaches to Essence (1927)	p. 158
The Being Proper to Essences (1927)	p. 168
The Scope of Natural Philosophy (1930)	p. 173
Indispensable Properties of Substance (1930)	p. 179
Teleology (1930)	p. 188
The Psyche (1930)	p. 198
There Are No Necessary Truths (1937)	p. 214
Facts Arbitrary, Logic Ideal (1937)	p. 220
Interplay between Truth and Logic (1937)	p. 225
Dramatic Truth (1937)	p. 231
Moral Truth (1937)	p. 236
Love and Hatred of Truth (1937)	p. 243
Denials of Truth (1937)	p. 253
Rational Life in Art, Religion, and Spirituality	p. 261
The Elements and Function of Poetry (1900)	p. 265
Introduction [The Life of Reason] (1905)	p. 282
The Birth of Reason (1905)	p. 297
How Religion May Be an Embodiment of Reason (1905)	p. 303
Justification of Art (1905)	p. 309
The Criterion of Taste (1905)	p. 320
Art and Happiness (1905)	p. 331
Ultimate Religion (1933)	p. 338
The Nature of Spirit (1940)	p. 346
Liberation (1933)	p. 357
Union (1933)	p. 375
Ethics and Politics	p. 409
Prerational Morality (1906)	p. 412
Rational Ethics (1906)	p. 422
Post-Rational Morality (1906)	p. 435
Hypostatic Ethics (1913)	p. 452
Public Opinion (1951)	p. 461
Government of the People (1951)	p. 464
Who Are "The People"? (1951)	p. 466
The United States as Leader (1951)	p. 470
Conclusion [Dominations and Powers] (1951)	p. 474
Literature, Culture, and Criticism	p. 479
Sonnet III (1886)	p. 482
To W. P. (1894)	p. 483
Prologue [The Last Puritan] (1935)	p. 486
Epilogue [The Last Puritan] (1935)	p. 493
The Poetry of Barbarism (1900)	p. 497
Emerson (1900)	p. 519
The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy (1911)	p. 526
English Liberty in America (1920)	p. 541
The Genteel Tradition at Bay (1931)	p. 555
The Ethics of Nietzsche (1915)	p. 578
William James (1920)	p. 584
Josiah Royce (1920)	p. 595
Dewey's Naturalistic Metaphysics (1936)	p. 609
Index	p. 623
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