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• Title:
  George Santayana i problem wolności
• Creator:
  Grzeliński, Adam;
  Pietras, Alicja
• Description:
  This article is a commentary and an introduction to the Polish translation of George Santayana’s work, Freedom, which is a chapter in the fourth volume of his series, The Realms of Being, titled The Realm of Spirit (1940). It provides an overview of hisprevious works, particularly his series The Life of Reason (1905–1906) and Scepticism and Animal Faith (1926). Additionally, it briefly examines the evolution of Santayana’s standpoint and the meaning of the fundamental categories and concepts of his ontology. The analysis of Freedom, along with a comparison to the standpoints of Nicolai Hartmann and Hannah Arendt, enables us to classify it as a form of compatibilism. Within this perspective, natural determinism harmonizes with the teleological self-determination of human will. Human freedom, directed towards an open horizon of the future, unveils an essential tragic aspect of human condition, as the choice of a value is perpetually linked to unfulfillment. Ultimately, any value resides in the realm of ideals, and by making a choice, we neglect other values and select only one of the potential paths in our lives.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2023.12.11
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Studies in the History of Philosophy; Vol. 14 No. 3 (2023): Power as an Object of Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought; 123-146;
  Studia z Historii Filozofii; Tom 14 Nr 3 (2023): Power as an Object of Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought; 123-146;
  2391-775X;
  2083-1978
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/szhf/article/view/47334/37072
• Subject:
  George Santayana;
  Nicolai Hartmann;
  ontology,;
  Will,;
  freedom,;
  compatibilism;
  teleology
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/szhf/article/view/47334
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
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• Type:
  text