Reviews for Readings in Natural Philosophy; Or, a Popular Display of the Wonders of Nature

The average rating for Readings in Natural Philosophy; Or, a Popular Display of the Wonders of Nature based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-10-13 00:00:00 Eddie Richmond Occasionally interesting. No overarching argument. I most liked the gentle relocation of Freudianism from scientific truth to poetic myth.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-09-14 00:00:00 Brian Giles Thanks to LibriVox.org, I was able to listen to an audio recording of this book on the road between home and campus. Santayana had a rhetorical and stylistic strength in his essays. Although I can't compare Santayana's conclusions with the current state of philosophy, I can say that these essays are likely to be useful and accessible to anyone with an interest in the history of philosophical thought. For example, the first two essays address John Locke. One of my favorite quotations, I discovered, came from Santayana's footnotes in the Locke essays. I had found the quotation attributed to Santayana in another book, but the writer didn't include the source of the quotation. Here's that favorite quotation: "Only literature can describe experience, for the excellent reason that the terms of experience are moral and literary from the beginning. Mind is incorrigibly poetical: not because it is not attentive to material facts and practical exigencies, but because, being intensely attentive to them, it turns them into pleasures and pains, and into many-colored ideas."