title: The Genteel Tradition: Nine Essays by George Santayana
author:  George Santayana 
description: <DIV>"Santayana portrays aspects of American character with an astonishing vividness and pungency which has often been imitated but not equalled by later writers."&#8212;[London] <I>Times Literary Supplement</I></DIV> (<i>Times Literary Supplement</i>)
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  SANTAYANA
  
   
   
  The Arguments of
   the Philosophers
   
  E D I T O R : T E D  H O N D E R I C H
  Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic,
  University College London
  The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment
  and history of the entire course of philosophical thought. Each book
  constitutes a detailed, critical introduction to the work of a
  philosopher or school of major influence and significance.
  Already published in the series:
   
  *Augustine
  Christopher Kirwan *John Stuart Mill
  John Skorupski
  *J.L.Austin
  Geoffrey Warnock
  *G.E.Moore
  Tom Baldwin
  Ayer
  John Foster
  *Nietzsche
  Richard Schacht
  Bentham
  Ross Harrison
  *Peirce
  Christopher
  *Bergson
  A.R.Lacey
  Hookway
  Berkeley
  George Pitcher
  *Plato
  Justin Gosling
  Butler
  Terence Penelhum
   Plotinus
  Lloyd P.Gerson
  *Descartes
  M.Dauler Wilson
  *Karl Popper
  Anthony O’Hear
  *Dewey
  J.E.Tiles
  *The Presocratic
  Jonathan Barnes
  Gottlob Frege
  Hans Sluga
  Philosophers
  Hegel
  M.J.Inwood
  *Thomas Reid
  Keith Lehrer
  Hobbes
  Tom Sorell
  *Russell