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The seventh and penultimate book of the letters of American philosopher George Santayana, covering the years 1941 to 1947 and including letters to such correspondents as Daniel Cory, John Hall Wheelock, Robert Lowell, and others.This penultimate volume of Santayana's letters chronicles Santayana's life during a difficult time--the war years and the immediate postwar period. The advent of World War II left Santayana isolated in Rome, and the difficulties of wartime travel across borders forced him to abandon plans to move to more agreeable locations in Switzerland or Spain. During these years, Santayana lived in a single room in a nursing home run by the "Blue Sisters" of the Little Company of Mary in Rome, where, during the winter months, he did much of his writing in bed (wearing well-mended gloves) in order to stay warm. And yet, despite wartime deprivations, illness, and old age (he was 77 in 1941), Santayana was remarkably productive, completing both his autobiography Persons and Places and The Idea of Christ in the Gospels: or God in Man, and all but completing Dominations and Powers. He confided to one correspondent that he had "never been more at peace or more happy." The eight books of The Letters of George Santayana bring together over 3,000 letters, many of which have been discovered in the fifty years since Santayana's death. Letters in Book Seven are written to such correspondents as his friend and protegee Daniel Cory, his financial manager and heir George Sturgis, and the American poet Robert Lowell. The correspondence with Lowell--which began when the younger writer sent Santayana a copy of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Lord Weary's Castle--signals an important new friendship, which became a source of affection and intellectual engagement in Santayana's final years.

Philosophers --- Scholars --- Santayana, George, --- PHILOSOPHY/General

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The essential and most puzzling problem of consciousness is how the electro-chemical activity constantly occurring in the brain translates into the conscious experience we enjoy. Neither neuro-scientists nor psychologists nor philosophers have so much as tackled this problem head-on, (despite many claims to the contrary ) let alone solved it. In this study, Errol Harris considers the attempts that have been made by several important neuro-scientists and philosophers to address the question, and he makes his own suggestions as to how it might be approached with the best prospect of intelligibility. "This book makes distinctive and rare contributions to philosophy of mind. The most significant and unusual virtue of this book is its range, combining a deep knowledge of the history of philosophy with critiques of contemporary works in philosophy of mind and the sciences of cognition. There are a few writers who have pursued a dialog between contemporary philosophy of mind/cognitive science and Continental philosophers such as Husserl, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty and Pragmatists such as William James. Harris is unique, in my experience, in bringing to bear additional insights from such fixtures in the philosophical canon as Aristotle, Spinoza, Hegel, Bradley and Collingwood alongside such contemporary spokespersons of cognitive science as Antonio Damasio and Daniel Dennett. For those us of us who think that those who ignore the lessons of philosophical history may be condemned to repeat them, this book may prove an important challenge." Steven Horst, Chair of Philosophy, Wesleyan University (CT, USA).

Neurosciences. --- Consciousness. --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system --- Apperception --- Mind and body --- Perception --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Spirit --- Self --- Philosophy (General). --- Philosophy, general. --- Philosophy. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities

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Ethischen Problemen hat Moritz Schlick zeitlebens große Aufmerksamkeit entgegen gebracht, insbesondere den Fragen nach dem Sinn des Lebens und nach der Konstituierung einer allgemein zu akzeptierenden Moral. Die Schriften "Lebensweisheit" (1907) und "Fragen der Ethik" (1930) bilden sozusagen die Eckpunkte seiner bereits seit Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts entwickelten Auffassung von der Ethik als einer psychologisch begründeten Lust- und Glückseligkeitslehre. Die Texte basieren auf den Originalausgaben und wurden anhand der nachgelassenen Manuskripte bzw. Typoskripte textkritisch bearbeitet und kommentiert. Durch den Kontext der Werke ergeben sich neue und wertvolle Einsichten in die Entwicklung von Schlicks ethisch-moralischem Denken.

Philosophy. --- Philosophy of Science. --- Philosophy (General). --- Science --- Sciences --- Philosophie --- Hedonism. --- Happiness. --- Philosophy and science.

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Religion --- Theology --- Spirituality --- Religion & Philosophy (General). --- Religion. --- Spirituality. --- Theology. --- Religion - General

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Religion --- Theology --- Spirituality --- Religion & Philosophy (General). --- Religion. --- Spirituality. --- Theology. --- Religion - General