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Spiritual Life: Santayana's Approach to Essence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

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There is no such opposition between mind and spirit for Santayana as for Descartes existed between matter and mind, provoking him to uncompromising fireside dichotomy. For spirit is born out of an achieved harmony, Santayana says, and this harmony is the psyche. There can be then, it will be seen, no direct opposition. Actually, mind yields spirit. But there is some degree of conflict, precisely the conflict between ethereal flying and material wings, the one achieved through the agency of the other, but checked by their weight.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1936

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page 433 Note 1 Platonism and the Spiritual Life, p. 42.

page 434 Note 1 The Realm of Essence, p. 14.

page 435 Note 1 Scepticism and Animal Faith, p. 70.

page 435 Note 2 Ibid., p. 40.

page 435 Note 3 Ibid., p. 67.

page 435 Note 4 Platonism and the Spiritual Life, pp. 87 and 88.

page 436 Note 1 The Realm of Essence, Preface, p. xi.

page 437 Note 1 The Realm of Essence, p. 40.

page 437 Note 2 Ibid., 6.

page 437 Note 3 Platonism and the Spiritual Life, p. 50.

page 437 Note 4 Scepticism and Animal Faith, p. 85.

page 437 Note 5 The Realm of Matter, p. 40.

page 438 Note 1 The Realm of Essence, p. 82.

page 438 Note 2 Scepticism and Animal Faith, p. 48.

page 439 Note 1 Platonism and the Spiritual Life, p. 48.

page 439 Note 2 The Realm of Essence, p. 96.

page 439 Note 3 Ibid., p. 102.

page 440 Note 1 The Realm of Essence, p. 104.

page 440 Note 2 Ibid., p. 99.

page 440 Note 3 The New Republic, 02 15, 1928, Vol. LIII.Google Scholar

page 440 Note 4 The Realm of Essence, p. 106.

page 440 Note 5 Platonism and the Spiritual Life, p. 36.

page 441 Note 1 The Realm of Essence, p. 61.

page 442 Note 1 Platonism and the Spiritual Life, p. 55.

page 442 Note 2 Ibid., p. 7.

page 442 Note 3 Ibid., p. 47.

page 443 Note 1 The Genteel Tradition at Bay, p. 31: The Appeal to the Supernatural.

page 444 Note 1 The Realm of Essence, Preface, p. x.