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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