乔治·桑塔亚纳,西班牙裔美国哲学家、诗人、小说家、文学和文化批评家,在美学、哲学、文学创作和文艺批评诸领域内均有重大贡献。他1863年出生于西班牙马德里,1872年随母亲移居美国波士顿。1886年,桑塔亚纳获得哈佛大学文学学士。随即去柏林大学学习了两年哲学,然后又回到哈佛,在实用主义哲学家W·詹姆斯的指导下完成关于德国哲学 George Santayana, a Hispanic American philosopher, poet, novelist, literary and cultural critic, has made a significant contribution to the fields of aesthetics, philosophy, literary creation and literary criticism. Born in Madrid, Spain in 1863, he moved to Boston, United States, in 1872. In 1886, Santana won a bachelor of arts degree from Harvard University. Then went to Berlin University for two years to learn philosophy, and then returned to Harvard, completed under the guidance of the pragmatist philosopher W. James on German philosophy