He argued that knowledge can be defined not by reasoned awareness but only by its application in action, meaning philosophy must begin in medias res.
This thinker rejected religion's moral and factual truth but praised its poetic capacity to produce piety and spirituality in the section "Reason in Religion." This thinker defined essence as embodiments of character through which humans perceive the world, contrasting it with matter, truth, and spirit. He argued that knowledge can be defined not by reasoned awareness but only by its application in action, meaning philosophy must begin in medias res. For 10 points, identify this Spanish-American philosopher of The Realms of Being and Skepticism and Animal Faith who declared in The Life of Reason that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
This thinker rejected religion's moral and factual truth but praised its poetic capacity to produce piety and spirituality in the section "Reason in Religion.
George Santayana [or Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás]