Background
Villas, Jorge was born in 1917 in Santiago, Chile.
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Jorge Villas
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Studied Law at the University of hile, and Philosophy at the University of Iowa, "i: Bergson, Ortega, Enrique Molina and arence Finlayson.
Career
Visiting Professor, olumbia University and the University of uerto Rico. Professorial appointments at a Variety of universities in Chile.
ain Publications:
43) Jc/ea ¡¡e ia individualidad.
'0) ¡deas de lafilosofía: el conocimiento. Santiago: Editorial Universitaria.
77) The Intellectual and Moral Challenge of Mass Normal, 111.: Applied Literature Press, s) £/ rol de la ciencia en el desarrollo.
Santiago: orP°rac¡ón de Promoción.
°) La violencia y sus máscaras: dos ensayos de J' osofia, Santiago: Ediciones Aconcagua.
81 * 7í/eo y defensa de la universidad. Santiago: !°rial del Pacífico.
°5) Escenas inéditas de Alicia en el país de la ^oraviUas. Santiago: Pehuen.
econdary literature:
H s'cIvan (1989) Academic Rebels in Chile: The ole of Philosophy in Higher Education and Politics, Aibany, NY: SUNY Press.
termed personalismo posited that the individual is the core reality whereas all groups of which the individual may form part, such as family, nation and society, are symbolic constructs which deny the range of individual personalities.
Consistent with his concern for the individual, the primary topics in Millas’s philosophy are spirituality and freedom. He disdained social and political interference in the individual’s existence. Millas believed that Latin America was an ideal place from which to make a universal contribution to the philosophy of the individual.
AMY A. OLIVER.
