Francisco Romero 1891 – 1962
Francisco Romero was an Argentine philosopher of Spanish origin and one of the principal architects of academic philosophy in the Spanish-speaking world of the twentieth century. A pupil and intellectual heir of Alejandro Korn, he held the chair of philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires and at La Plata and founded the Argentine Philosophical Society. His Theory of Man set out an original personalist philosophy in which the human being is the being that transcends itself toward what it is not yet, while his Philosophy of the Person and the long series of essays on Latin American thought helped to articulate a self-conscious Latin American philosophical vocation.
Key facts
- Nationality
- Argentine
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Continental
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Francisco Romero:
“The human is the being that transcends itself toward what it is not yet.”
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Attributed to Francisco Romero:
“Personalism is the philosophy of the irreducible individual.”
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Attributed to Francisco Romero:
“Latin America has a vocation to philosophy of its own.”
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Attributed to Francisco Romero:
“Each act of intentionality opens onto a horizon of being.”
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Attributed to Francisco Romero:
“The person is more than nature, and less than the absolute.”