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A Study of Santayana With Some Remarks on Critical Realism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 February 2009
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This paper is intended to be an interpretation of what I shall venture to call—the deliberate philosophy of Santayana, as outlined in his recent and most penetrating book: Scepticism and Animal Faith. I refrain from employing the battered term metaphysics, because this candid “ lover of wisdom ” has reminded us that his system is not metaphysical, “ except in the mocking literary sense of the word.” What the vulgar (among which I count myself), however, understand by the term, he is guilty of offering in this mature work. It is my desire to try and see his philosophy under the searchlight of contemporary discussion;and I shall introduce some remarks of my own on what I consider significant Realistic issues of the day. My philosophy, however, on nearly all conditions, has been formed by, and is in concord with, the system here expounded.
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page 349 note 1 Professor Santayana, who read this article in manuscript, expressed the view that it is an excellent and accurate exposition of his philosophy. (ED.).
page 350 note 1 Scepticism and Animal Faith, pp. 77–78.
page 351 note 1 Experience and Nature, p. 148 (my italics).
page 352 note 1 Science and the Modern World, p. 121.
page 352 note 2 Scepticism and Animal Faith, p. 47 (my italics).
page 352 note 3 Ibid., p. 83.
page 352 note 4 The Making of Religion, p. 90.
page 352 note 5 The Concept of Nature, p. 28.
page 353 note 1 The Yale Review, April 1924 (my italics).
page 353 note 2 The Making of Religion, p. 90.
page 353 note 3 Ibid., pp. 119–120 (my italics).
page 354 note 1 Scepticism and Animal Faith, p. 130 (my italics).
page 354 note 2 Ibid., p. 131 (my italics).
page 354 note 3 (I am indebted to Professor Leonard Russell for this felicitous expression.)
page 354 note 4 Emergent Evolution, p. 36.
page 354 note 5 Ibid., p. 208.
page 354 note 6 Space, Time and Deity, vol. ii, p. 43, et passim.Google Scholar
page 355 note 1 My own interpretation.
page 355 note 2 With apologies to Mr. Whitehead.
page 355 note 3 Soliloquies in England, p. 142.
page 355 note 4 Experience and Nature, p. 76.
page 356 note 1 Mind and Its Place in Nature, p. 195. This is the best exposition of Critical Realism I know. The book has, unhappily, the same title as Dr. Broad’s recent work.
page 356 note 2 Introduction to Modern Philosophy, p. 19.
page 357 note 1 The Analysis of Mind, p. 306.
page 357 note 2 Soliloquies in England, p. 221.
page 357 note 3 Science and the Modern World, p.111.
page 358 note 1 Soliloquies in England, p. 144.
page 359 note 1 The Analysis of Mind, p. 113.
page 359 note 2 Ibid., p. 17–18.
page 359 note 3 (I am indebted to Mr. Russell for this happy term.)
page 360 note 1 The Origin of Consciousness, p. 320.
page 360 note 2 Scepticism and Animal Faith, p. 119.
page 360 note 3 Human Psychology, p. 255. (His italics.)
page 361 note 1 The New Realism, p. 332. (His italics.)
page 363 note 1 Scepticism and Animal Faith, p. 227.
page 363 note 2 Mysticism and Logic, p. 55. (My italics.)
page 363 note 3 Scepticism and Animal Faith, p. 268.