George Santayana 
The Sense of Beauty (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) [EPUB ebook] 

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.


 



George Santayana is an unequaled champion of emotional life and the value of pure contemplation and imaginative play. In his first philosophical book,
The Sense of Beauty, Santayana elucidates how the contemplation of beautiful ideals invests our lives with meaning. His great achievement is to offer a way of retaining the significance of spiritual and moral values in the context of a predominantly materialist and scientific world. This seminal work explores aesthetics, the psychological and cultural importance of art, and the relationship between the humanities and the sciences.

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George Santayana was born in Madrid in 1863 and moved to Boston when he was eight years old. While at Harvard University, Santayana was one of the founders of the satirical magazine the
Lampoon. In 1896, Santayana took a sabbatical at Cambridge University, England, where he developed a close professional relationship with Bertrand Russell. For some time he lived in Paris, and then Rome. With the outbreak of the Second World War, Santayana moved to a convent, where he died in 1952.