Background
Eatone, Vicente was born in 1903 in Buenos Aires.
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Vicente Eatone
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Studied Philosophy at the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, and Philosophy of Ancient India in Calcutta.
Career
Professor of Logic, and of Cosmology and Metaphysics, Universidad Nacional del Litoral. 1929-1930; Professor of Logic, Escuela Normal de Profesores Mariano Acosta, 1932-1941. Professor of the History of Religions, Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
1940-1946; Professor of Philosophy, Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, 1945-1952. Professor, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires. Argentinian Ambassador to India, after the political changes of 1955.
Views
Fatone studied the nature of mystic experience and held that human reality involves dialogue: through it one liberates oneself and others from irrationality, fear and hate, leading oneself and others towards rationality, effort and love. This has led some—though by no means all—commentators to characterize Fatone’s position as rational mysticism. A central notion in Fatone’s philosophy is that of freedom, which he conceives in an existentialist fashion. For Fatone, freedom is the basic consistituent of human existence in two respects. First, humans are not simply free: they must be free. Second, no human being can be free without everyone else's being free.
