Scepticism and Animal Faith
SCEPTICISM
AND ANIMAL FAITH
INTRODUCTION TO
A SYSTEM OF PHILOSOPHY
BY
GEORGE SANTAYANA
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1923
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| Preface | v | |
| CHAP. | ||
| I. | There is no First Principle of Criticism | 1 |
| II. | Dogma and Doubt | 6 |
| III. | Wayward Scepticism | 11 |
| IV. | Doubts about Self-Consciousness | 21 |
| V. | Doubt about Change | 27 |
| VI. | Ultimate Scepticism | 33 |
| VII. | Nothing Given exists | 42 |
| VIII. | Some Authorities for this Conclusion | 49 |
| IX. | The Discovery of Essence | 67 |
| X. | Some Uses of this Discovery | 77 |
| XI. | The Watershed of Criticism | 99 |
| XII. | Identity and Duration attributed to Essences | 109 |
| XIII. | Belief in Demonstration | 116 |
| XIV. | Essence and Intuition | 125 |
| XV. | Belief in Experience | 134 |
| XVI. | Belief in the Self | 145 |
| XVII. | The Cognitive Claims of Memory | 150 |
| XVIII. | Knowledge is Faith mediated by Symbols | 164 |
| XIX. | Belief in Substance | 182 |
| XX. | On some Objections to Belief in Substance | 192 |
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| XXI. | Sublimations of Animal Faith | 214 |
| XXII. | Belief in Nature | 237 |
| XXIII. | Evidences of Animation in Nature | 249 |
| XXIV. | Literary Psychology | 252 |
| XXV. | The Implied Being of Truth | 262 |
| XXVI. | Discernment of Spirit | 272 |
| XXVII. | Comparison with other Criticisms of Knowledge | 289 |
| Index | 311 |