Full Name: Jorge Augustin Nicolas Ruiz de Santayana y Borras
Born: 1863
Died: 1952
Hometown: Madrid, Spain
Fave Subjects: Art and Beauty, How To Be Good, Truth and Knowledge, Human Minds
Career Highlights:
- Wrote more than 20 books, including philosophy, novels, poems, plays and essays
- was a professor at Harvard
- traveled all over Europe
- famous for his clever sayings
- drew cartoons and did a bit of acting
Big Question:
How does thinking about art and beauty help us to understand other things?
If you think Santayana was a beautiful thinker, check him out in our book series ThinkAboutIt: Philosophy for Kids!