– 1969 in Mexico

Mexico

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) was a Spanish-born philosopher who obtained political asylum in Mexico during the Spanish Civil War

Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil WarAlso known as The Crusade among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War among Carlists, and The Rebellion or Uprising among Republicans. was a major conflict fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939...

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Gaos was a professor of the University of Zaragoza

University of Zaragoza

The University of Zaragoza or sometimes Saragossa University is a university located in Zaragoza, in the Aragon region of Spain...

 and University of Madrid

University of Madrid

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. In 1939 he relocated to Mexico and taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico

National Autonomous University of Mexico

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. He was influenced by German

Germany

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 philosophers like Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher known for his existential and phenomenological explorations of the "question of Being."...

 and Nicolai Hartmann

Nicolai Hartmann

-Biography:Hartmann was born of German descent in Riga, which was then the capital of the Russian province of Livonia, and which is now in Latvia. He studied Medicine at the University of Tartu , then Philosophy in St. Petersburg and at the University of Marburg in Germany, where he took his Ph.D....

 and by Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset

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Gaos also was a prolific translator. He translated to the Spanish books of philosophers like Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher known for his existential and phenomenological explorations of the "question of Being."...

, John Dewey

John Dewey

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, Søren Kierkegaard

Søren Kierkegaard

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a Danish Christian philosopher, theologian and religious author. He was a critic of idealist intellectuals and philosophers of his time, such as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel...

, G. W. F. Hegel, Max Scheler

Max Scheler

Max Scheler was a German philosopher known for his work in phenomenology, ethics, and philosophical anthropology...

, Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher from Königsberg , researching, lecturing and writing on philosophy and anthropology at the end of the 18th Century Enlightenment....

, Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Johann Gottlieb Fichte was a German philosopher. He was one of the founding figures of the philosophical movement known as German idealism, a movement that developed from the theoretical and ethical writings of Immanuel Kant...

 and Edmund Husserl

Edmund Husserl

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Publications

• La filosofía de Maimónides (1940)
• El pensamiento hispanoamericano (1944)
• Dos exclusivas del hombre: la mano y el tiempo (1945)
• Antología del pensamiento en lengua española en la edad contemporánea (1945)
• Filosofía de la filosofía (1947)
• Método para resolver los problemas de nuestro tiempo (1950)
• Introducción a El ser y el tiempo de Martin Heidegger (1951)
• En torno a la filosofía mexicana (1952)
• Filosofía mexicana en nuestros días (1954)
• La filosofía en la universidad (1956)
• Ensayos sobre Ortega y Gasset' (1957)
• Confesiones profesionales (1958)
• Discurso de filosofía (1959)
• Orígenes de la filosofía y su historia (1960)
• Filosofía contemporánea (1962)
• Historia de nuestra idea del mundo (1973)

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