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Name:
George Santayana
Jorge Agustín Nicolás de Santayana
Dates:
Born: 1863
Died: 1952
Doctorate from Harvard University: 1889
Biography:
George Santayana was a Spanish-American philosopher who wrote a great deal about the
importance of aesthetics in human life, but is perhaps better known for arguing that a
will to believe comprises an important aspect of how people acquire knowledge.
Santayana spent his last years in a convent in Rome. He said that he felt a deep
attachment to Catholicism because of its historical and aesthetic qualities, even
though he also described himself as being entirely "divorced" from religious faith.
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