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The Life of Reason

by George Santayana

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  1. 1Introduction to “The Life of Reason”
  2. 2Chapter I — The Birth of Reason
  3. 3Chapter II — First Steps and First Fluctuations
  4. 4Chapter III — The Discovery of Natural Objects
  5. 5Chapter IV — On Some Critics of This Discovery
  6. 6Chapter V — Nature Unified and Mind Discerned
  7. 7Chapter VI — Discovery of Fellow-Minds
  8. 8Chapter VII — Concretions in Discourse and in Existence
  9. 9Chapter VIII — On the Relative Value of Things and Ideas
  10. 10Chapter IX — How Thought Is Practical
  11. 11Chapter X — The Measure of Values in Reflection
  12. 12Chapter XI — Some Abstract Conditions of the Ideal
  13. 13Chapter XII — Flux and Constancy in Human Nature
  14. 14Reason in Society — Chapter I — Love
  15. 15Chapter II — The Family
  16. 16Chapter III — Industry, Government, and War
  17. 17Chapter IV — The Aristocratic Ideal
  18. 18Chapter V — Democracy
  19. 19Chapter VI — Free Society
  20. 20Chapter VII — Patriotism
  21. 21Chapter VIII — Ideal Society
  22. 22Reason in Religion — Chapter I — How Religion May Be an Embodiment…
  23. 23Chapter II — Rational Elements in Superstition
  24. 24Chapter III — Magic, Sacrifice, and Prayer
  25. 25Chapter IV — Mythology
  26. 26Chapter V — The Hebraic Tradition
  27. 27Chapter VI — The Christian Epic
  28. 28Chapter VII — Pagan Custom and Barbarian Genius Infused Into Christ…
  29. 29Chapter VIII — Conflict of Mythology With Moral Truth
  30. 30Chapter IX — The Christian Compromise
  31. 31Chapter X — Piety
  32. 32Chapter XI — Spirituality and Its Corruptions
  33. 33Chapter XII — Charity
  34. 34Chapter XIII — The Belief in a Future Life
  35. 35Chapter XIV — Ideal Immortality
  36. 36Chapter XV — Conclusion
  37. 37Reason in Art — Chapter I — The Basis of Art in Instinct and Experi…
  38. 38Chapter II — Rationality of Industrial Art
  39. 39Chapter III — Emergence of Fine Art
  40. 40Chapter IV — Music
  41. 41Chapter V — Speech and Signification
  42. 42Chapter VI — Poetry and Prose
  43. 43Chapter VII — Plastic Construction
  44. 44Chapter VIII — Plastic Representation
  45. 45Chapter IX — Justification of Art
  46. 46Chapter X — The Criterion of Taste
  47. 47Chapter XI — Art and Happiness
  48. 48Reason in Science — Chapter I — Types and Aims of Science
  49. 49Chapter II — History
  50. 50Chapter III — Mechanism
  51. 51Chapter IV — Hesitations in Method
  52. 52Chapter V — Psychology
  53. 53Chapter VI — The Nature of Intent
  54. 54Chapter VII — Dialectic
  55. 55Chapter VIII — Prerational Morality
  56. 56Chapter IX — Rational Ethics
  57. 57Chapter X — Post-Rational Morality
  58. 58Chapter XI — The Validity of Science

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