[BOOK][B] Reason in common sense
G Santayana - 1910 - books.google.com
Progress is relative to an ideal which reflection creates.-Efficacious reflection is reason.—
The Life of Reason a name for all practical thought and all action justified by its fruits in
consciousness. It is the sum of Art.-It has a natural basis which makes it definable.—Modern
philosophy not helpful.-Positivism no positive ideal.-Christian philosophy mythical: it
misrepresents facts and conditions.-Liberal theology a superstitious attitude toward a natural
world.—The Greeks thought straight in both physics and morals.—Heraclitus and the …
The Life of Reason a name for all practical thought and all action justified by its fruits in
consciousness. It is the sum of Art.-It has a natural basis which makes it definable.—Modern
philosophy not helpful.-Positivism no positive ideal.-Christian philosophy mythical: it
misrepresents facts and conditions.-Liberal theology a superstitious attitude toward a natural
world.—The Greeks thought straight in both physics and morals.—Heraclitus and the …