The birth of reason & other essays
A collection of recent essays from the American philosopher and Chair of the Santayana Society. The subjects discussed include the philosophy of travel, the politics of religion, friendship, appearance and reality, and the false steps of philosophy.
Print Book, English, [1995]
Columbia University Press, New York, [1995]
xxxii, 186 pages ; 21 cm
9780231031691, 9780231102773, 0231031696, 0231102771
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Sonnet to a Harvard friend
The philosophy of trvel
Towers
Hellenism and barbarism
Note on Goethe's Chorus Mysteries in Faust
The soul at play
The birth of reason
Spirit in the sanctuary
Natural and ultimate religion
Harmony
Ultimate reponsibility
Friendship
Political religion
On public opinion
Alternatives to liberalism
Tom Sawyer and Don Quixote
Bertrand Russell's Searchlight
Three American philosophers
On idealistic historians
Mind liberating and deceptive
Appearance and reality
On the false steps of philosophy
What is the ego?