Santayana wrote a select few Xviii volumes of philosophy, when well as poetry, a novel (The Previous Puritan, which was the right seller within 1936), and an autobiography. His students went in to fame & glory too. A virtually all large of his students were T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Walter Lippmann and Harry Austryn Wolfson.

Biography
Santayana was natural Jorge Augustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana within Madrid, Spain, but spent his boyhood around �vila. He moved by having his parents to Boston in 1872, when he was nine years old, & took to using a title George, the English variant of Jorge. He attended Boston Latin School, and exposed under William James, Josiah Royce, and Hugo Munsterberg at Harvard University. Graduating from either Harvard around 1886, he studied for 2 years inside Berlin and then returned to Harvard to teach philosophy from 1889 until he retired upon gaining an inheritance in 1912. He so lived for many years inside Paris and Oxford, finally settling inside Rome from 1925 until his death within 1952.

Philosophy
Patch non considered to exist as the canonical pragmatist in the mold of James, Charles Peirce, Royce, or John Dewey by many scholars, Santayana wrote what may arguably exist as considered a number 1 good-length exposition of pragmatism: his early masterwork, The Life of Reason, in 5 volumes. Thereinside act, Santayanthe develops pragmatist information in a broad framework of naturalism, and examines metaphysics & epistemology, society, religion, art, and science, respectively. He was an early disciple to epiphenomenalism, although he also expressed admiration for the definitive materialism of Democritus and Lucretius. Such as numbers of of the authoritative pragmatists, being well-versed inside evolutionary theory, Santayanthe was committed to a realistic metaphysics, where man cognition, practices, & institutions grew & developed to harmoniously adapt to their environment, and whose value can merely become measured proportionate their conduciveness to the attainment of mortal happiness.

Notably, Santayana as well wrote a foremost major operate in aesthetics to be published inside United states, The Sense of Beauty. When he did non subscribe to Spinoza's rationalism, the writings of Spinoza were too held around particularly high regard by Santayana. Prefer Spinozthe, Santayana adopted a somewhat sceptical stance inside his philosophy to belief in the being of God, on to himself as an "aesthetic Catholic".

Selected Works
The Sense of Beauty (1896) Sonnets and Other Verses (1896) Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (1900) The Life of Reason, 5 Vols. (1905-6) Three Philosophical Poets (1910) Egotism in German Philosophy (1916) Character and Opinion in the United States (1920) Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922) Scepticism and Animal Faith (1923) Dialogues in Limbo (1925) Platonism and the Spiritual Life (1927) Realms of Being, 4 Vols. (1927-40) Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy (1933) The Last Puritan, a memoir in the form of a novel (1936) Obiter Scripta (1936) The Realm of Truth (1938) The Realm of Spirit (1940) Persons and Places, 3 Vols. (1944-53) The Idea of Christ in the Gospels, or God in Man (1946) Dominations and Powers (1951)