Romero, Francisco
Romero, Francisco
Born in 1891. Professor of Philosophy at the Universities of Buenos Aires, La Plata, and the National Institute for Teachers. Director of the Philosophical Library of the Losada Publishing House, and distinguished staff member of various cultural magazines and reviews in Latin America. Francisco Romero is one of the most important figures in the philosophical movement of South America. He is the immediate successor of Korn, and as such he follows on the footsteps of his master, doing pioneer work, not only striving towards an Argentinian philosophy, but also campaigning for philosophy in the nations of Latin America through a program of cultural diffusion. Among his most important writings, the following may be mentioned
Vteja y Nueva Concepcion de la Realidad, 1932;
Los Problemas de la Filosofia de la Cultura, 1936;
Filosofia de la Persona, 1938;
Logica (In collaboration with Pucciarelli), 1936;
Programa de una Filosofia, 1940;
Un Filosofo de la Problematicidad, 1934;
Descartes y Husserl, 1938;
Contribucion al Estudio de las Relaciones de Comparacion, 1938;
Teoria y Practica de la Verdad, 1939.
Three characteristic notes may be observed in the philosophy of Romero
Aporetics or Problematics,
Philosophy of Weltanschauungen,
Philosophy of the Person.
The first has to do with his criterion of knowledge. Justice to all the facts of experience, over against mere system building, seems to be the watchword. The desirability and gradual imposition of Structuralism as the modern Weltanschauung, over against outworn world conceptions such as Evolution, Mechanism, Rationalism, etc., is the emphasis of the second principle of his philosophy. Personality as a mere function of transcendence, with all that transcendence implies in the realm of value and history, carries the main theme of his thought. See Latin American Philosophy. — J.A.F.