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CASO, Antonio was born on December 19, 1883 in México, D.F.
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- Main publications:Ail now included in Obras completas, 11 vols, Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, 1971-1977:(1915) Problemas filosóficos.(1919) La existencia como economía, como disinterés, y como caridad, revised 1943.(1923) El concepto de Ia historia universal.(1933) El concepto de la historia y la filosofía de los valores.(1941) La persona humana y el estado totalitario.(1942) El peligro de! hombre.Secondary literature:Escandon, C. (1968) La respuesta moral en la filosofía del Maestro Antonio Caso, Mexico: Editorial Pórrua.Guandique, J. S. (1976) ‘Perfiles sobre Caso y Vasconcelos’, Humanitas (Mexico) 17: 215-66. Romanell, P. (1952) Making of the Mexican Mind.Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.Weinstein, M. A. (1976) The Polarity of Mexican Thought, Pennsylvania and London: Pennsylvania State University Press.Together with Vasconcelos, Antonio Caso ranks as one of the founders of Mexican philosophy. He was one of the leaders of the generation of Latin American thinkers which found wanting the Comtean positivism which had prevailed in the nineteenth century. Caso disliked in particular the determinism and epiphenomenalism of positivistic thought, and evolved his own libertarian Personalism in opposition to it. In common with other Latin American thinkers of his time, Caso regarded philosophy as something to be lived, and not merely as a recondite, abstract body of knowledge. This view did not change, in contrast to other aspects of his thought: most notably, the orthodox Christian elements in his outlook become more pronounced in works post-dating the Mexican Revolution. Within his own country and to a lesser extent throughout Latin America, Caso’s thought continues to be a point of reference. In Mexico itself he was, and is, revered as a thinker.
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Antonio CASO, Mexican lawyer, professor, writer;. Decorations: grand cross, Orden del Sol, Peru; cross, Orden al Mérito, Chile; knight, Légion d’Honneur, France; medal Goethe fiir Kunst und Wissenschaft, and Independencia del Perú. Member Academy, de la Lengua, International Institute of Sociology, Académie Française; member Academy, de la Historia, Colombia; member Academy Nacional de la Historia, Buenos Aires.
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Educated Escuela Nacional Preparatoria, and law school, University Nacional de México. Dr. honoris causa, Universities de México, Rio de Janeiro, Guatemala, and San Marcos of Lima.
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Professor, writer; Professor, Escuela Nacional Preparatoria. Director, Facultad de Altos Estudios. Professor, sociology, law school, and president, University Nacional de México.
Ambassador to Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil. Member Academy, de la Lengua, International Institute of Sociology, Académie Française. Correspondent member Academy, de la Historia, Colombia.
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Main publications:Ail now included in Obras completas, 11 vols, Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, 1971-1977:(1915) Problemas filosóficos.(1919) La existencia como economía, como disinterés, y como caridad, revised 1943.(1923) El concepto de Ia historia universal.(1933) El concepto de la historia y la filosofía de los valores.(1941) La persona humana y el estado totalitario.(1942) El peligro de! hombre.Secondary literature:Escandon, C. (1968) La respuesta moral en la filosofía del Maestro Antonio Caso, Mexico: Editorial Pórrua.Guandique, J. S. (1976) ‘Perfiles sobre Caso y Vasconcelos’, Humanitas (Mexico) 17: 215-66. Romanell, P. (1952) Making of the Mexican Mind.Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.Weinstein, M. A. (1976) The Polarity of Mexican Thought, Pennsylvania and London: Pennsylvania State University Press.Together with Vasconcelos, Antonio Caso ranks as one of the founders of Mexican philosophy. He was one of the leaders of the generation of Latin American thinkers which found wanting the Comtean positivism which had prevailed in the nineteenth century. Caso disliked in particular the determinism and epiphenomenalism of positivistic thought, and evolved his own libertarian Personalism in opposition to it. In common with other Latin American thinkers of his time, Caso regarded philosophy as something to be lived, and not merely as a recondite, abstract body of knowledge. This view did not change, in contrast to other aspects of his thought: most notably, the orthodox Christian elements in his outlook become more pronounced in works post-dating the Mexican Revolution. Within his own country and to a lesser extent throughout Latin America, Caso’s thought continues to be a point of reference. In Mexico itself he was, and is, revered as a thinker.
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Member Academy, de la Lengua, International Institute of Sociology, Académie Française. Member Academy, de la Historia, Colombia. Member Academy Nacional de la Historia, Buenos Aires.
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Decorations: grand cross, Orden del Sol, Peru. Cross, Orden al Mérito, Chile. Knight, Légion d’Honneur, France. Medal Goethe fiir Kunst und Wissenschaft, and Independencia del Perú.Decorations: grand cross, Orden del Sol, Peru. Cross, Orden al Mérito, Chile. Knight, Légion d’Honneur, France.
Medal Goethe fiir Kunst und Wissenschaft, and Independencia del Perú.