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6 unusual facts about George Santayana


Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison

William James, George Santayana, Bertrand Russell and George Herbert Mead, all borrowed his concept of the personality, or psyche, and sought it as a barrier against the claims of Gabriel Tarde, F. H. Bradley, and Josiah Royce.

Dialogue

Authors who have recently employed it include George Santayana, in his eminent Dialogues in Limbo (1926, 2nd ed. 1948; this work also includes such historical figures as Alcibiades, Aristippus, Avicenna, Democritus, and Dionysius the Younger as speakers), and Iris Murdoch, who included not only Socrates and Alcibiades as interlocutors in her work Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues (1986), but featured a young Plato himself as well.

Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell

Russell supported his brother's pacifism during the First World War I, and was a close friend of George Santayana.

German idealism

George Santayana had strongly–held opinions regarding this attempt to overcome the effects of Kant's transcendental idealism.

Sam Crawford

During the Ritter interviews, he quoted from the works of philosopher George Santayana and abolitionist Robert Ingersoll, and discussed the works of one of his favorite writers, Honoré de Balzac.

Vergangenheitsbewältigung

The focus on learning is much in the spirit of philosopher George Santayana's oft-quoted observation that "those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it."


Thomas Parker Sanborn

In the fall of 1885, Sanborn and five of his literary cohorts, Harvard seniors William Woodward Baldwin, Alanson B. Houghton, George Santayana, William Morton Fullerton, and George Rice Carpenter founded The Harvard Monthly.

Walter Lippmann

At age 17, he entered Harvard University where he studied under George Santayana, William James, and Graham Wallas, concentrating upon philosophy and languages (he spoke German and French), and earned his degree in three years, graduating as a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society.


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