Guy Sircello was born in Tacoma, Washington, and attended Lincoln High School.
In 1960, he married Sharon Chapin, a fellow Reed graduate, and shortly after, they left New York for Hamburg, where he had a Fulbright grant to further his studies of Ernst Cassirer, the subject of his doctoral dissertation at Columbia University.
In New York, the family grew as the Sircellos also became foster parents to Deborah's brothers, Billie, Alexander, and Constantine (Stan).
In 1963, another daughter, Pier Andrea, was born in New York City just prior to the family's move to Portland, so that Guy could join the Reed faculty.
[1] He taught at Reed College before becoming a founding member of UC Irvine's Philosophy department.
[1] Sircello was active in the American Society for Aesthetics and served as the president of its Pacific Division from 1978 to 1979.
In particular, Sircello was dismayed that among philosophers the ancient conception of love of beauty had been displaced by other human concerns.
His last book, Love and Beauty, was intended to provide a theory to begin to fill the void left by this loss of interest.
Beauty resides for Sircello in the possession by objects, scenes, actions, and so on of qualities to a very high degree.
[14] Reproductions by S a subject may be regarded as recollections, repetitions or recreations of images, memories, thoughts, actions, feelings, or states that are parts of the experience.