Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński

Santayana: A Philosophical Guide

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George Santayana

Philosophers provide us with different things: thoughts, inventions, reflections on various topics, worldviews, lifestyles, and their own visions of philosophy. Some of them can be seen as masters who can teach us how to live well, others as scientists who provide us with theories, still others can serve us as guides and interpreters.

I have been encouraged to blog about Spanish-American philosopher, best-selling author, and poet, George Santayana, or Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás (1863-1952), seen as a thinker who, by means of his abundant output and wide scope of his interests, can show us his own way of looking at practicing philosophy, at other philosophers, philosophical schools, arts, philosophical problems within different disciplines, and even philosophical reflections about the places he visited.

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Español

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Mis textos en español son dedicados principalmente a tres áreas de investigaciones.

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La primera es la filosofía de George (Jorge) Santayana, un pensador
nortamericano-español, y eso incluye, entre otros, las siguientes publicaciones:

Introducción a “Simposio sobre la filosofia politica de Jorge Santayana“, director invitado Krzysztof (Chris) Piotr Skowroński, Limbo. Boletin Internacional de estudios sobre Santayana (Spain), 29, 2009; “El pragmatismo abulense de George Santayana: un epitome” en: Debats. Revista trimestral editada por la Institució Alfons el Magnanim (Valencia), 2010/3 (108), pp. 82-83; “Santayana y America.” En: Santayana: un pensador universal (ed. J. Beltrán, M. Garrido y S. Sevilla). Universidad de Valencia, 2011, pp. 49-54; “Aspectos ontológicos de la obra de arte literaria en Santayana. Un bosquejo introductorio” en: Limbo. Boletín de estudios internacionales sobre Santayana (Spain), 28 (2008), pp. 137-158.

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2004-2017

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I gave the following courses in the past:

  • Filozofia (dla Filologii Czeskiej)
  • Filozofia (dla studentów Instytutu Sztuki)
  • Gombrowicz i filozofia współczesna (studia doktoranckie z filozofii)
  • Persuasion and Rhetoric (dla studentów English in Public Communication)
  • Multiculturalism (Erasmus students)
  • Politics and Aesthetics (Erasmus students)
  • Persuasion and Rhetoric (in English for the students of English in Public Communication)
  • Philosophy (Humanistic subject in English for the students of English Philology and of EPC)
  • Erasmus programme (in English for international Students)
  •  Doktryny i idee artystyczne sztuki współczesnej (dla studentów Instytutu Sztuki)
  • Philosophy (dla studentów anglistyki i English in Public Communication)

Table of Contents

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                SANTAYANA: A PHILOSOPHICAL GUIDE

  1. PHILOSOPHY
  • What is Philosophy?
  • The Role of Philosopher
  • Methodology of Literary philosophy
  • Teaching philosophy
  • Universal character of philosophy
  1. PHILOSOPHERS
  • Plato
  • Aristotle
  • Lucretius
  • Berkeley
  • Locke
  • Leibniz
  • Spinoza
  • Kant
  • Schopenhauer
  • Emerson
  • Peirce
  • James
  • Dewey
  1. SCHOOLS AND MOVEMENTS
  • Platonism
  • Neoplatonism
  • Epicureanism
  • Stoicism
  • Thomism
  • Scholastics
  • German Idealism
  • Transcendentalism
  • Utilitarianism
  • Pragmatism
  • Critical Realism
  • Existentialism
  • Analytic
  • Marxism
  • Postmodernism
  1. PHILOSOPHICAL DISCIPLINES
  • History of Philosophy
  • Contemporary Philosophy
  • Ethics
  • Aesthetics
  • Ontology
  • Metaphysics
  • Epistemology
  • Mind-Body (Philosophy of Mind)
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Anthropology
  • Political Philosophy
  • Social Philosophy
  • Sociology
  • Philosophy of Culture
  • Literary Criticism
  • Philosophy of Values
  1. POSITIONS AND DOCTRINES
  • Materialism/Naturalism
  • Rationalism
  • Realism
  • Scepticism
  • Relativism
  • Epifenomenalism
  1. PROBLEMS AND ISSUES
  1. DIALOGUES AND DISPUTES
  • Santayana vs. Dewey
  • Santayana vs. James
  • Santayana vs. Royce
  • Santayana vs. Berenson
  1. MEANING, RECEPTION, CONTINUATORS
  • Savater
  • Rorty
  • Lachs
  • Danto
  • B. Singer
  • I. Singer
  • Saatkamp
  • Sprigge
  • Kerr-Lawson
  • Moreno
  1. PLACES
  • Avila
  • Berlin
  • Oxford
  • Cambridge
  • Cambridge (Harvard)
  • Boston
  • Rome
  • Paris
  • London
  1. AESTHETICS, ARTS, AND LITERARY FIGURES
  • Dante
  • Shakespeare
  • Whitman
  • Browning
  • Avant-garde
  • Classic art
  • Barbarian Art
  • Generation’98

11. MISCELLANEA

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