Background
Larroyo, Francisco was born in 1908 in Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico.
Larroyo, Francisco was born in 1908 in Jerez, Zacatecas, Mexico.
Studied in Germany.
A number of senior appointments, notably Professor in the Escuela Nacional de Maestros, in the Escuela Normal (1945-1949) and in the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico.
In L'Idéologie arabe contemporaine ( 1967 ), Laroui compares the Arab world with Western and Oriental cultures, starting from the presupposition that the description of the Arabic ‘self’ means a historicization of the Western notion of ‘self’. He criticizes both the prejudices of Orientalism and the limitations of Arabic and Islamic thought, and argues that Arabic thought posits objective truth that can be grasped by the human intellect. In this way Arabic ideology could be consistent with a Western outlook, especially regarding the finality of history. This will happen when the main problem of Arabic ideology—namely the acquisition of (self-Consciousness—is solved. In his other works Laroui returns to the issues of the Arab intellectual’s crisis—the deficiency of the Arab view of the state, the dialectical intercourse Secondary literature: Escobar, E. (1970) Francisco Larroyo y su personalismo critico. At the heart of Larroyo's philosophy is a neoKantianism showing a marked sympathy for the approach of the Baden school. He begins from the assertion that consciousness is bidimensional, > eit can take two distinct attitudes to objects in the world. An object can be regarded solely vv*tJj regard to what it is, or it can be regarded for its purpose or significance. Each of these forms of consciousness has its own set oi categories, those of being and those of preference. Preferences are the expressions of values, and so Larroyo concludes that values do not transcend consciousness but are inherent in it. Human culture is the form in whic values are realized. Hence, for Larroyo, philosophy becomes the analysis of cultural forms: La filosofia es, asi, una doctrina de la cultura’. Via both his books and the journal he founded. La Gaceta filosofia, Larroyo’s ideas have had considerable influence in his native country. In collaboration "nth other philosophers, notably G. H. Rodriguez, he developed detailed neo-Kantian critiques of the other philosophies which were influential in Mexico at the time, notably the ideas of Dilthey and Ortega, neoscholasticism and existentialism.