Keywords
religión
La vida de la razón Georges Santayana
religion
The Life of Reason
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Abstract
The volume we are considering, Reason in Religion, is the third installment of the lyrical or dramatic journey that Santayana proposes in The Life of Reason, through human experience and its rational progress. As Professor Beltrán Llavador explains in the introduction, the religious question was a leitmotif in Santayana's life and work, one to which he would return time and again in his subsequent publications and which would even play a leading role in his autobiographical novel The Last Puritan. Can a self-confessed and unwavering atheist write such a sublime work on the religious phenomenon without falling into the denial of its dogma or the denunciation of its ideals? With this work, Santayana answers in the affirmative.
References
Montes Pozo, C. (2002). «Más allá de la belleza: reflexiones sobre el pensamiento estético de George Santayana», en Vicente Cervera Salinas y Antonio Lastra (eds.), Los reinos de Santayana. Valencia: Universidad de Valencia, pp. 59-80.
Santayana, George (1991), La vida de la razón. Buenos Aires, Nova.
Santayana, George (1967), «Maxims», en John Lachs (ed.), Animal faith and spiritual life: previously unpublished and uncollected writings by George Santayna with critical essays on his thought. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, pp. 163-168.
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