Gustavo Bueno Martínez is a Spanish

Spain

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 philosopher.

Gustavo Bueno is the main proponent of the philosophical system known as philosophical materialism. Philosophical materialism excludes any possibility of spiritual life without reference to organic life. Its ontology and theories of knowledge are not based on mechanic materialism or dualistic historical materialism, but in a rich interpretation of the main systems defended by the different traditions available in the History of Philosophy.

The founder of academic (scholar) philosophy, Plato

Plato

Plato , was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the...

, defended in Sophist

Sophist (dialogue)

The Sophist is a Platonic dialogue from the philosopher's late period, most likely written in 360 BCE. Having criticized his Theory of Forms in the Parmenides, Plato presents a new conception of the forms in the Sophist, more mundane and down-to-earth than its predecessor...

, from the point of view of his theory of knowledge, the principle of Symploké that Bueno uses to support both determinism and pluralism: «nothing is isolated from everything else, but not everything is connected to everything else; otherwise, nothing could be known.»

External links

• http://www.fgbueno.es/ing/gbm.htm
• http://www.fgbueno.es/ing/gbm/1991cult.htm
• http://www.fgbueno.es/ing/gbm/2005quix.htm