Background
Romero, Francisco was born in 1891 in Seville, Spain.
Romero, Francisco was born in 1891 in Seville, Spain.
Taught in Buenos Aires. Since 1946, Professor, Colegio Libre de Estudios Superiores.
Main publications:(1938) Filosofía de la persona y otros ensayos de filosofía, Buenos Aires.(1952) Sobre la filosofía en América, Buenos Aires: Editorial Raigal.(1957) Filósofos y problemas. Buenos Aires: Losada-(1958) Ideas y figuras, Buenos Aires: Losada.(1960) Ortega y Gasset y el problema de la jefatura espiritual, y otros ensayos, Buenos Aires: Losada. (1964) Theory of Man, trans. William F. Cooper.Berkeley: University of California Press.(1967) La estructura de la historia de la filosofía y otros ensayos, Buenos Aires: Losada.The following English translations of excerpts of the work of Francisco Romero by Willard Trask appear in Aníbal Sánchez Reulet (ed.) (1954) Contemporary Latin American Philosophy, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press:‘Person and transcendence’, pp. 269-75.‘Program of a philosophy’, pp. 255-69.Secondary literature:Ardao, Arturo, et at. (1983) Francisco Romero: Maestro de la filosofía Caracas: Sociedad Interamericana de Filosofía.Rodriguez Alcalá, Hugo (1954) Francisco Romero: Vida y obra, New York: Hispanic Institute, Columbia University.
Romero's philosophy of the person stressed freedom and creativity as essential for his concept of transcendence’. He sought to develop a philosophy of culture taking into account the profound eflect that certain cultural objects have on the Person.
Ortega y Gasset, Korn, Schclcr, Klages, Hartmann, Husserl and Garcia Morente.