When1: 1896
When2: 1952
Who: George Santayana [Santayana, George] or Jorge Agustín Nicolás de Santayana [Santayana, Jorge Agustín Nicolás de]
What: philosopher
Where: Spain/USA
works\ Sense of Beauty [1896]; Sonnets and Other Verses [1896: poems]; Reason in Art [1903]; Life of Reason or the Phases of Human Progress [1906]; Skepticism and Animal Faith [1923]; Realms of Being [1927 to 1940]; Last Puritan [1935: novel]; Realm of Spirit [1940]; Persons and Places [1944 to 1952: autobiography]
Detail: He lived 1863 to 1952 and was skeptical.
Aesthetics
Beauty is pleasure in thinking about object and is object quality.
Epistemology
People unite instinct and reason in a form of common sense. People know only their immediate perceptions. People have faith in them, animal faith. Mind perceives object essences {Critical Realism}.
Ethics
Religion is myth and untrue but is useful and has poetic beauty.
Metaphysics
Universe is mechanistic and materialist, but man must have faith in the unknowable, which is outside religion.
Politics
History realizes God's plan for man's salvation.
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