SOME TURNS OF THOUGHT IN MODERN PHILOSOPHY
Five Essays
BY
GEORGE SANTAYANA
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1933
Published under the auspices of
THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
CONTENTS
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| [I. Locke and the Frontiers of Common Sense] Paper read before the Royal Society of Literature on the occasion of the Tercentenary of the birth of John Locke. With some [Supplementary Notes] | 1 |
| [II. Fifty Years of British Idealism] Reflections on the republication of Bradley's Ethical Studies | 48 |
| [III. Revolutions in Science] Some Comments on the Theory of Relativity and the new Physics | 71 |
| [IV. A Long Way Round to Nirvana] Development of a suggestion found in Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle | 87 |
| [V. The Prestige of the Infinite] A review of Julien Benda's Sketch of a consistent theory of the relations between God and the World | 102 |
The Author's acknowledgments are due to the Editors of The New Adelphi, The Dial, and the Journal of Philosophy, in which one or more of these Essays originally appeared.