The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two

Index

index Absolute Mind, xvi, xvii Absolute, the, xviii Achilles as example of idealized figure, 100 identified, 177 Actual requires divine and material, 124 Adam his fall, 10 identified, 163 Agrippa, Menenius. See Menenius lanatus, Agrippa Alexander iii of Macedon (Alexander the Great) example of eminent man, 48, 57 identified, 168, 178 mentioned, xlviii, 103, 163 Alfred identified, 169 mentioned, 48 Alsace-lorraine identified, 177 mentioned, 102 America and the ancient Greeks, xviii and democracy of the pioneers, 73 and European conquest, 48, 102 and industrialism, 43 and modernity, xxv and philosophical naturalism, l–lii, 192–93 American Naturalism and Greek Philosophy (Anton), xviii Ancient Greeks. See Greeks Angels according to Aquinas, 161 humans contrasted with, 3 Anton, John P., xviii Apologetics and philosophy, xiv Aquinas, Thomas on angels, 161 The Arabian Nights identified, 168 mentioned, 47 Arcadia democracy of, 73, 173 identified, 167 mentioned, 40, 79, 174 Aristocracy, xxviii, 57–71 and caste, 63–64 English and vestiges of feudalism, 112 Homer’s depiction of, 73, 173 ideal expressed in theism, 60 harmony of, illustrated by Dante, 60–61 in Plato’s Republic, 60–61 understood naturalistically, 61–63 and indian castes, 63–64 injustice of, 67–68 its justification for suffering, 68–70 by natural faculties, 63 its falsity, 63–64 occurs only in civilized states, 65 origin in traditional authority, 48 and patriotism, 107 and political democracy, 74, 83–84 required for life of pleasure, 85 and scientific breeding, 63 socialistic, 81–82 source of civilization and culture, 79 thwarts individual natures, 67 Aristotle and the Absolute, xviii and final causes, xx on friendship, 13, 163 on God, 99, 176 and human nature, xix identified, 163 influence in, xxi influence on Santayana, xxviii inquiry into social structure, xxviii and naturalism, xviii on natural slaves, 63, 172 physics, xx his Platonic theism, 61, 170 and Santayana, xviii, xix, xx Santayana regards virtue differently from, xxv Santayana studies, 190 Army ideal, 50–51 irresponsible love of war, 51 Reason in Society 232 Army (continued) origin of, 50–51 and patriotism, 107–8 Art(s) and happiness, xxxviii and human progress, xxxvi and imagination, xxxvi as imagination of nature’s possibilities, xxxviii and inherent value of symbol(s), 122–23 and instinct(s), xxiii and intelligence, xxxvi–xxxviii and life of Reason, xxxviii and morals, xxxvi–xxxvii and nature, xxxvi as rational process, xxxvi as revolutionary, xxxix as source of wealth, 41 and values, xxxvi–xxxvii Asia, history of, 46–47, 50. Astrology, 122 Atheism, xvii Athens democracy in, 166 more civilized than Sparta, 34 Athletics better than family as means to socialization, 30–31 and self-knowledge, 30–31 See also Sport Babylon, 80, 174 Bacchus identified, 164 mentioned, 16 Barbarism detested, 44 and family, 34 idiosyncrasy futile with, 65 and irrational industry, 43 and modern democracy, 79 and Protestantism, xxxi individualism a sign of escape from, 34 Beauty as means to arousing passionate love, 13 and rational harmony, xxxvii of rational symbols, xxx, 126 and spirit, 58–59 Berlin, Santayana in, xviii Breeding alone could produce virtue, 76 and aristocracy, 63 “A Brief History of My opinions” (Santayana) mentioned, xviii, xix quoted, xviii, xxii Buchler, Justus, on Santayana, l Buddhism, 127 Byron, George Gordon identified, 175 quoted, 89 Cambridge University and Santayana, xviii, 190, 198 Cartesianism and experience, xiv–xv and matter, xiv, xvii and mind, xiv and nature, xiv and qualities, xiv See also Descartes Caste and aristocracy, 63–64 in india, 29, 63, 165 Catholicism as pagan Christianity, xxxi See also Church, Roman Catullus, Gaius Valerius identified, 163 quoted, 11, 163 Chaos and emergence of reason, xxi Charity addressed by Dante, 60–61 among religious concerns analyzed by Santayana, xxxii in furthering what already lives, 25 and justice, xxxiii–xxxiv Charlemagne and French identity, 102 identified, 177 Charles Scribner’s Sons and manufacturing records, 196 Reason in Common Sense, galleys, 191 Santayana’s correspondence with, 191, 192, 194, 195, 201, 205–6, 208 Santayana’s publisher, 191, 196 233 index and Wheelock, 201–2 Charles the Great. See Charlemagne Children as adults rarely share community of life with parents, 25–26 as improvement on parents, 26–27 united with parents by community of purpose, 25 Christianity derived from conditions of oppression, xxxi has elevated humans to place of deities, 127 leaves causes of every evil untouched, 33 and mysticism, 61 Church in modern Europe, 50 Roman a timocracy, 81 Civilization and aristocracy, 65 and family...