George Santayana

George Santayana

Born in Madrid of Spanish parents, but raised in Boston (USA), where he achieved fame as a poet and philosopher at the University of Harvard, Astonishing Travel through Europe from 1912 -Ávila, London, Paris, Fiesole-, who chose Rome as a center for his late thirties, Santayana achieved a synthesis of the most universal and rich European and American traditions. The clarity, sanity and independence of thought, combined with the beauty of its literary expression, make him an atypical writer inside his marked classicism, a sage who sees the world to offer an essential reflection on the human reality and the possibilities smart happiness. In the vast work of Santayana, Soliloquies in England and later soliloquies (1922), a brilliant interweaving of literature and philosophy, is central in his books and other teaching -Sonetos verses, sense of beauty, poetry and Interpretations religion, the life of reason and writings of philosopher Skepticism and Animal faith, Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, Realms of Being, dominations and powers and the idea of Christ in the Gospels. In this same light have seen Editorial Platonism inspired and spiritual life (2006) and his autobiography People and Places (2002), in addition to the monograph Santayana philosopher Daniel Moreno. Philosophy as a way of life (2007).