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Some Thoughts about Santayana's "Natural and Ultimate ReligiouReligion"

What I miss most in Santayana's explanation of religion is a sufficiently clear distinction between simply living life and living it understandingly. Subhuman animals simply live their lives and therefore may well be said to be engaged in living, or committed to the enterprise of living, without their previous consent. But human animals, once they become such, live their lives understandingly, and this means that they have to understand themselves and lead their lives accordingly. If they are engaged in living, or committed to the enterprise of living, this is , in the final analysis, only with their previous consent.

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