George Santayana
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| Born | Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás December 16, 1863 Madrid, Spain |
| Died | September 26, 1952 (aged 88) Rome, Italy |
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| Doctoral advisor | Josiah Royce |
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| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
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| Notable students | Jacob Loewenberg,[1] Conrad Aiken, T. S. Eliot, Horace Kallen, Walter Lippmann, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edward Rand, Alain Locke, Van Wyck Brooks, Learned Hand, Felix Frankfurter, Max Eastman, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens |
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George Santayana (born Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) was a Spanish philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist.[2] Born in Spain, he moved to the United States at the age of eight.
As a philosopher, Santayana is known for aphorisms, such as "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it",[3] and "Only the dead have seen the end of war",[4] and his definition of beauty as "pleasure objectified".[5] Although an atheist, Santayana valued the culture of the Spanish Catholic values, practices, and worldview, in which he was raised.[6] As an intellectual, George Santayana was a broad-range cultural critic in several academic disciplines.
At the age of 48, he left his academic position at Harvard University and permanently returned to Europe; his last will was to be buried in the Spanish Pantheon in the Campo di Verano, Rome.
- ^ Shook, John R. (ed.), The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, Continuum, 2005, p. 1499.
- ^ "the definition of Santayana". dictionary.com. Archived from the original on November 23, 2018. Retrieved May 7, 2016.
- ^ Santayana, George (1905) Reason in Common Sense, p. 284, volume 1 of The Life of Reason.
- ^ Santayana, George (1922) Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies, number 25.
- ^ "Beauty as Intrinsic Pleasure by George Santayana". Archived from the original on April 26, 2018. Retrieved June 15, 2016.
- ^ Lovely, Edward W. (September 28, 2012). George Santayana's Philosophy of Religion: His Roman Catholic Influences and Phenomenology. Lexington Books. pp. 1, 204–206.