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An edition of The life of reason (1905)

The life of reason

or, The phases of human progress

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  • 1 Currently reading

Philosopher George Santayana published The Life of Reason in five volumes between 1905 and 1906. Said to be the most fully-realized articulation of Santayana's moral philosophy, the volumes of this set are Reason in Common Sense, Reason in Society, Reason in Religion, Reason in Art, and Reason in Science; all contained in this edition. Considered by many to be one of the more well-written and poetic works in Western philosophy, The Life of Reason gives us the often-quoted "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

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C. Scribner's sons
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Philosophy, Progress, Reason, Nonfiction, Sociology, Raison, Progrès, Philosophie, Anthropologie philosophique, Atlases

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The life of reason
1998, Prometheus Books
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The life of reason: or, The phases of human progress.
1954, Scribner
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The life of reason: or, The phases of human progress.
1906, Constable
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The life of reason: or, The phases of human progress
1905, C. Scribner's sons
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1905, Scribner

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Table of Contents

[v. 1] Introduction, and Reason in common sense.
[v. 2] Reason in society.
[v. 3] Reason in religion.
[v. 4] Reason in art.
[v. 5] Reason in science.

Edition Notes

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New York
Other Titles
Phases of human progress.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
191.9
Library of Congress
B945.S23 L7, B945.S23 L7 cop.3, B945.S23 L7 1905

The Physical Object

Pagination
5 v.

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL6951892M
Internet Archive
lifeofreasonor02sant
LCCN
05005419
OCLC/WorldCat
31420598, 1657887

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL1862194W

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First Sentence

"HUMAN LIFE, when it begins to possess intrinsic value, is an incipient order in the midst of what seems a vast though, to some extent, a vanishing chaos."

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