Francisco Romero
(Seville, 1891-Buenos Aires, 1962) Argentine philosopher and writer.He was a professor at the universities of Buenos Aires and La Plata and a member of numerous institutions, including the International Phenomenological Society and the Colegio Libre de Estudios Superiores.When the Center for Philosophical Exchange of the Americas was established in the United States, he was appointed president.His main works are Logic (1938), On the history of philosophy (1943), Contemporary Philosophy (1944), A theory of man (1952), What is philosophy? (1953) and History of modern philosophy (1959).
He was influenced by European philosophers, especially Ortega y Gasset and Hartmann.Drawing inspiration from the latter, he makes the concept of transcendence one of the pillars of his thought.Reality is a process that develops through hierarchical degrees, each of which is superior and transcendent to the previous ones.The higher degrees, although they rely on the lower ones, are not conditioned by them, but reveal new instances.The process goes from inorganic matter to organic and psychic matter, culminating in the absolute transcendence of the spirit and its values.Regarding the history of philosophy, in the Middle Ages the transcendence oriented towards God prevailed, which today is oriented towards absolute values as such.
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