This author of The Sense of Beauty described matter, essence, truth, and spirit as the "realms of being" and wrote Skepticism and Animal Faith.
While at Harvard, this thinker rejected Kantian thought by defining beauty as "pleasure objectified" that gives us our idea of God, rather than the other way around. This philosopher critiqued Cartesian foundationalism by arguing that humans are certain in their knowledge not out of reason, but because of a pre-rational belief in matter, concluding that philosophy must begin "in medias res." This author of The Sense of Beauty described matter, essence, truth, and spirit as the "realms of being" and wrote Skepticism and Animal Faith. For 10 points, identify this Spanish-American philosopher who stated, "those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it."
While at Harvard, this thinker rejected Kantian thought by defining beauty as "pleasure objectified" that gives us our idea of God, rather than the other way around.
George Santayana