Josiah Royce
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Josiah Royce was an American pragmatist and absolute idealist philosopher and the founder of American idealism. His philosophical ideas included his joining of pragmatism and idealism, his philosophy
Royce, c. 1910
Grass Valley Library Royce Branch
Inscription honoring Royce at the entrance to the Grass Valley Public Library in California.
George Santayana
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George Santayana was a Spanish American philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. Born in Spain, he moved to the United States at the age of eight.
Josiah Royce
…American philosophy School Pragmatism American idealism Objective idealism Doctoral students Curt John Ducasse William Ernest Hocking C. I. Lewis George Santayana Henry M. Sheffer Notable students Conrad Aiken, Van Wyck Brooks, Witter Bynner, W. E. B. Du Bois, Max Eastman, T. S. Eliot, Felix Frankfurter, Learned…
Santayana lived in Hollis Hall as a student at Harvard.
Santayana early in his career
Santayana's famous aphorism "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" is inscribed on a plaque at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Polish translation and English back-translation (above), and on a subway placard in Germany (below).
Along with Wendell Phillips and John F. Kennedy, Santayana is quoted on a military plaque at Veterans Memorial Park in Rhome, Texas.