By George Santayana, William G. Holzberger, Herman J. Saatkamp Jr.
Because the first collection of George Santayana's letters used to be released in 1955, presently after his loss of life, many extra letters were situated. 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 similar 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 yankee thinker Charles Augustus robust and along with his sister Susana Sturgis de Sastre. additionally integrated is correspondence with such extraordinary 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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The maturity of view, intellectual acuteness, and power of expression in these letters are remarkable. Santayana’s perennial emphasis on the crucial importance of the Socratic principle of self-knowledge and the ethical doctrine of moral relativism7 characteristic of his most mature writings are nowhere more perfectly expressed than in the 6 October 1886 letter to Abbot written from Berlin when Santayana was not quite twenty-three years old. In response to Abbot’s indecision about going into business—as his family evidently wanted—or pursuing instead some other career, Santayana wrote: To do right is to know what you want.
Since 1976 the Endowment has underwritten the comprehensive edition of Santayana’s Works, in which the letters edition is included. Officers and staff members to whom we are especially indebted for their indispensable support are James Herbert, Director, Division of Research Programs, Margot Backas, Michael Hall, George Lucas, Douglas Arnold, Stephen Veneziani, and Alice Hudgins. Other organizations that have contributed importantly to the completion of the letters edition are The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for granting a Fellowship for work on the letters edition to Daniel Cory in 1972; the American Council of Learned Societies for awarding me two separate grants for work on the project; and to the Committee on Scholarly Development of Bucknell University for the award of grants that allowed me to devote several summers to work on the letters edition.
Lyon is an excellent example of the “philosophical” letters. In it Santayana states his views on matter, idea, the self, intuition, and other perennial philosophical issues, relative to the views of philosophers such as Plato, Descartes, Kant, Berkeley, Fichte, Kierkegaard, Bergson, and Russell. 3 In fact, we find in Santayana’s letters not only a distillation of his philosophy but also a multitude of new perspectives on the published work. The responses to his correspondents are filled with spontaneous comments on and restatements of his fundamental philosophical ideas and principles.