Gustavo Bueno
| Gustavo Bueno | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Gustavo Bueno Martínez September 1, 1924 Santo Domingo de la Calzada, La Rioja, Spain |
| Died |
August 7, 2016 (aged 91) Niembro, Asturias, Spain |
| Era | 20th and 21st centuries |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Philosophical materialism, Marxism, Rationalism, Academy of Plato, Scholasticism |
Main interests | Philosophy, politics, religion, science, political economy, mass media |
Notable ideas | Main author of contemporanean Philosophical materialism, "Vuelta del Revés de Marx" concept, theory of categorical closures in Philosophy of Science |
Gustavo Bueno Martínez (September 1, 1924 – August 7, 2016) was a Spanish philosopher.[1]
Gustavo Bueno is the main proponent of the philosophical system known as philosophical materialism.[2] Philosophical materialism excludes any possibility of spiritual life without reference to organic life. Its ontology and theories of knowledge are not based on mechanic materialism or dualistic historical materialism, but on the reality of current sciences and on a rich interpretation of the main systems defended by the different traditions available in the History of Philosophy.
The founder of academic (scholar) philosophy, Plato, defended in Sophist the principle of Symploké that Bueno uses to support both determinism and pluralism: "nothing is isolated from everything else, but not everything is connected to everything else; otherwise, nothing could be known."[3] Thus, Bueno opposes both monism and skepticism. Some of Bueno's works have been translated into English, German and Chinese.
Bibliography
- El papel de la Filosofía en el conjunto del saber (1971)
- Ensayos materialistas (1972)
- Ensayo sobre las Categorías de la Economía Política, (1973)
- La Metafísica Presocrática, (1975)
- La Idea de Ciencia desde la Teoría del Cierre Categorial, 1977
- Etnología y utopía, 1982
- Nosotros y ellos, 1983
- El animal divino, 1985
- Cuestiones cuodlibetales sobre Dios y la Religión, (1989)
- Materia, (1990)
- Primer ensayo sobre las categorías de las Ciencias Políticas, (1991)
- Teoría del Cierre Categorial (5 vols.), 1993
- ¿Qué es la filosofía? (1995)
- ¿Qué es la ciencia? (1995)
- El Mito de la Cultura: ensayo de una teoría materialista de la cultura, 1997
- España frente a Europa, 2000
- "Telebasura y democracia", 2002
- El mito de la izquierda: las izquierdas y la derecha, 2003
- La vuelta a la caverna: terrorismo, guerra y globalización, 2004
- España no es un mito: claves para una defensa razonada, 2005
- Zapatero y el pensamiento Alicia: un presidente en el país de las maravillas, 2006
- La fe del ateo, 2007
- El Mito de la derecha, 2008
- Sciences as Categorical Closures, 2013
References
- ↑ http://www.fgbueno.es/ing/gbm.htm
- ↑ "Gustavo Bueno: textos en formato digital". Filosofia.org. Retrieved 2012-03-04.
- ↑ "Gustavo Bueno - Enciclopedia Symploké" (in Spanish). Symploke.trujaman.org. 2011-06-11. Retrieved 2012-03-04.
External links
- Official web page in English
- The Times: "Spain's top philosopher forced into retirement"
- Philosophy of Culture
- Spain and Quixote
- Sciences as Categorical Closures