Nuñez Regüeiro, Manuel
Nuez Regeiro, Manuel
Born in Uruguay, March 21, 1883. Professor of Philosophy at the National University of the Litoral in Argentine. Author of about twenty-five books, among which the following are the most important from a philosophical point of view
Fundamentos de la Anterosofia, 1925;
Anterosofia Racional, 1926;
De Nuevo Hablo Jesus, 1928;
Filosofia Integral, 1932;
Del Conocimiento y Progreso de Si Mismo, 1934;
Tratado de Metalogica, o Fundamentos de Una Nueva Metodologia, 1936;
Suma Contra Una Nueva Edad Media, 1938;
Metafisica y Ciencia, 1941;
La Honda Inquietud, 1915;
Conocimiento y Creencia, 1916.
Three fundamental questions and a tenacious effort to answer them run throughout the entire thought of Nuez Regeiro, namely the three questions of KantWhat can I know? What must I do? What can I expect? Science as auch does not write finis to anything. We experience in science the same realm of contradictions and inconsistencies which we experience elsewhere. Fundamentally, this chaos is of the nature of dysteleology. At the root of the conflict lies a crisis of values. The problem of doing is above all a problem of valuing. From a point of view of values, life ennobles itself, man lifts himself above the trammels of matter, and the world becomes meaning-full. Is there a possibility for the realization of this ideal? Has this plan ever been tried out? History offers us a living exampleThe Fact of Jesus. He is the only possible expectation. In him and through him we come to fruition and fulfilment. Nuez Regeiro’s philosophy is fundamentally religious. — J.A.F.