![]() ![]() The essay then responds to the objection that we should sooner reject the claim that essences are necessary conditions for action than attempt to argue for the compatibility of this claim with the claim that essences are causally inert. While Santayana is consistent in denying that ideas are causes, taken in the usual sense of efficient or motor causes, he does not clearly deny that they are necessary conditions for some behavioral effects. This analysis shows that a range of positions are available to Santayana that are compatible with his prohibition on invoking ideas as motor causes, perhaps even demanded by it. ![]() To this end, it examines the central tenets that provide the foundation for his position on metal causation as developed in Scepticism and Animal Faith. ![]() The present essay argues against the view that Santayana’s philosophy can unproblematically be classified as epiphenomenalist. ![]()
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