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Santayana on Lucretius - a naturalistic conception of things

"A naturalistic conception of things is a great work of imagination, – greater, I think, than any dramatic or moral mythology: it is a conception fit to inspire great poetry, and in the end, perhaps, it will prove the only conception able to inspire it."

George Santayana (1863-1952) in Three Philosophical Poets, Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1910, p. 21

The photo is a view from Raddon Top, Devon, taken last week.

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My name is Andrew James Brown. I’m a philosophically/theologically inclined writer with sympathies towards Imaoka Shin’ichirō's understanding of a creative, free spirituality (jiyū shūkyō 自由宗教), Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism, Christian atheism, D. G. Leahy’s “thinking now occurring for the first time”, a Lucretian inspired religious naturalism, new materialism and Kyoto School philosophy; also a photographer, cyclist, walker and jazz bass player. In addition to this, I’m the minister of a small, liberal, free religious community in Cambridge (UK)

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