Scepticism and Animal Faith
book by Santayana
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discussed in biography
- In George Santayana: Santayana’s system of philosophy
Scepticism and Animal Faith (1923) marks an important departure from his earlier philosophy and serves as “a critical introduction” to and résumé of his new system developed in the four-volume Realms of Being (1928, 1930, 1937, 1940), an ontological (nature of being) treatise of great…
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history of skepticism
- In skepticism: Idealism and naturalism
philosopher George Santayana, in Scepticism and Animal Faith (1923), presented a naturalistic skepticism. Any interpretation of immediate or intuited experience is open to question. To make life meaningful, however, people interpret their experiences on the basis of “animal faith,” according to biological and social factors. The resulting beliefs, though…
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