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The Life of Reason by George Santayana
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cause and value as an expression.--Thought's march automatic and
thereby implicated in events.--Contemplative essence of
action.--Mechanical efficacy alien to thought's
essence.--Consciousness transcendental and transcendent.--It is the
seat of value.--Apparent utility of pain.--Its real impotence.---
Preformations involved.--Its untoward significance.--Perfect
function not unconscious.--Inchoate ethics.--Thought the entelechy
of being.--Its exuberance


CHAPTER X--THE MEASURE OF VALUES IN REFLECTION Pages 236-255
Honesty in hedonism.--Necessary qualifications.--The will must
judge.--Injustice inherent in representation.--Æsthetic and
speculative cruelty.--Imputed values: their inconstancy.--Methods
of control.--Example of fame.--Disproportionate interest in the
æsthetic.--Irrational religious allegiance.--Pathetic
idealisations.--Inevitable impulsiveness in prophecy.--The test a
controlled present ideal


CHAPTER XI--SOME ABSTRACT CONDITIONS OF THE IDEAL Pages 256-268
The ultimate end a resultant.--Demands the substance of
ideals.--Discipline of the will.--Demands made practical and
consistent.--The ideal natural.--Need of unity and
finality.--Ideals of nothing.--Darwin on moral sense.--Conscience
and reason compared.--Reason imposes no new sacrifice.--Natural
goods attainable and compatible in principle.--Harmony the formal
and intrinsic demand of reason


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