TY  - BOOK
AU  - Santayana,George
AU  - Coleman,Martin A.
AU  - Wokeck,Marianne Sophia
ED  - Project Muse,
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The life of reason, or, The phases of human progress
T2  - The works of George Santayana
SN  - 9780262314664
AV  - B945.S23 L7 2013
U1  - 191 22
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Baltimore, Maryland
PB  - Project Muse
KW  - Progress
KW  - Reason
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE; Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgments -- Introduction by James Gouinlock -- Table of contents based on Scribner's first edition (1905) -- Reason in society critical edition text -- Chronology -- Appendix -- Editorial Appendix -- Index
N2  - Influential philosopher, poet, and literary critic George Santayana (1863-1952) was a thorough naturalist, concerned with the ideal factors in human experience. He held that everything possesses a natural basis and that everything natural has an ideal development. In this one-volume edition of his early work, The Life of Reason (originally published 1905-6), Santayana argues that rational life is embodied in various ideal forms, including religion, and that religion may be embodied in reason. However, this is not to say that religion is grounded in science; rather, religion is poetic, a rendering of natural events in a dramatic form. Hence, to take so-called religious truths as literal claims is preposterous
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780262314664/
ER  -