By George Santayana, William G. Holzberger, Herman J. Saatkamp Jr.
Because the first number of George Santayana's letters was once released in 1955, almost immediately after his dying, many extra letters were positioned. The Works of George Santayana, quantity V, brings jointly a complete of greater than 3,000 letters. The quantity is split chronologically into 8 books of approximately related size. ebook covers Santayana's first decade as a "freelance philosopher," following his resignation from Harvard collage and circulation to Europe. Of specific curiosity is Santayana's carrying on with correspondence with the yank thinker Charles Augustus powerful and along with his sister Susana Sturgis de Sastre. additionally incorporated is correspondence with such impressive figures as Bertrand Russell, Robert Seymour Bridges, Horace Kallen, and Logan Pearsall Smith. The correspondence covers Santayana's resignation from Harvard, his time in England in the course of global battle I, and reviews on his philosophical paintings in this interval.
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Toy, Mrs. Potter, and Mrs. Winslow fit this description. And, until her death in 1928, Santayana’s elder half sister Susan was, in complex ways, the beloved woman in his life. However, Santayana—like Schopenhauer and Nietzsche—saw women as fundamentally different from men, as is illustrated by a 17 February 1887 letter to Henry Ward Abbot: A woman, for example, is despised in so far as she is a human individual competing with others for life, especially because her methods of competing are small and mean; but she is loved and even worshiped as the complement of man, as something filling out his life without sharing his qualities.
Little), express Santayana’s traditionalist views on education and American education in particular. In addition to illuminating his ideas, views, and accomplishments as thinker and writer, Santayana’s let- Introduction xli ters are especially important in revealing the personal side of the famous author. Nowhere else—not even in his autobiography, Persons and Places— does he express so directly and succinctly his fundamental attitudes and convictions or reveal more intimately the characteristics of his complex personality.
At the same time, we can see his recognition of the limitations and obligations placed upon every human individual by one’s nationality, genetic inheritance, and psychological conditioning. This recognition is reflected in the fact that Santayana always identified himself as a Spanish citizen, and (despite the ultimately atheistic character of his philosophical principles) a Roman Catholic. It is reflected also in the record of loyalty and devotion to family and friends that we observe in the letters.
