Career
Gaos was a professor of the University of Zaragoza and University of Madrid. In 1939 he relocated to Mexico and taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He was influenced by German philosophers like Martin Heidegger and Nicolai Hartmann and by Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset.
Gaos also was a prolific translator.
He translated to Spanish the books of philosophers such as: Martin Heidegger, John Dewey, Søren Kierkegaard, G. West. F. Hegel, Max Scheler, Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Edmund Husserl.
