Background
Miró Quesada Cantuarias, Francisco was born in 1918 in Lima.
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Francisco Miró Quesada Cantuarias
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Education
Received doctorates in Mathematics and Philosophy, as well as a Law degree from the Universidad de San Marcos in Lima.
Career
Professor of Contemporary Philosophy, Universidad de San Marcos, 1939. Subsequently Professor of Philosophy of Mathematics, Universidad de San Marcos. Professor of Political Science, Universidad de San Marcos.
Cofounder of the Peruvian Philosophical Society, 1942.
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Miró Quesada views the crucial problem of philosophical anthropology not as that of the status of human essence, but rather as an epistemological problem. According to him, this is the problem of formulating an adequate theory of man. He approaches the problem of formulating such a theory by arguing that the traditional epistemological positions involved in dialectical philosophy, historicism, positivism, pragmatism and rationalism have been shown to be inadequate by scientific developments. As an alternative he uses modern logic and recent philosophical methods to describe the structure and dynamics of rational thought. In political philosophy. Miró Quesada has sought a more rigorous foundation for politics than that provided by such contemporary philosophies as Marxism and Christian socialism. His approach involves the formulation of a characterization of humanism which is independent of all metaphysical positions.
