Eduardo Nicol 1907 – 1990
Eduardo Nicol (1907 – 1990) was a Spanish-Mexican philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Continental Philosophy.
Eduardo Nicol was a Spanish-Mexican philosopher and one of the most original voices of the Spanish philosophical exile in Latin America after the Civil War. Trained at Barcelona under Joaquim Xirau, he settled in Mexico in 1939 and spent the rest of his career at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where he developed in his Metaphysics of Expression, The Idea of Man, and Critique of Speculative Reason an original metaphysics in which being expresses itself in dialogue and in which civilization is the historical form of that expression. His thought has shaped subsequent Mexican and Spanish-language philosophy.
Key facts
- Nationality
- Spanish-Mexican
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Continental Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Eduardo Nicol:
“Being expresses itself, and expression is its truth.”
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Attributed to Eduardo Nicol:
“Dialogue is the form of human reality.”
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Attributed to Eduardo Nicol:
“Each civilization is a moment of being's self-expression.”
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Attributed to Eduardo Nicol:
“The crisis of philosophy is a crisis of speech.”
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Attributed to Eduardo Nicol:
“Truth is what dialogue can sustain.”
Eduardo Nicol by topic
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