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Fray Alonso De La Vera Cruz and the Beginnings of Philosophic Speculation in the Americas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Kurt F. Reinhardt
Kurt F. Reinhardt*
Affiliation:
Stanford University
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Extract

The perusal of some of the more recent publications in the field of philosophy that have come out of Mexico and South America, such as the works of Oswaldo Robles and P. Derisi, forces upon the North American reader the realization that the European philosophic tradition in the form of the philosophia perennis was firmly established on this continent several centuries before philosophy began to fulfill its vital function in the curricula of the colleges and universities of North America or, more exactly, 235 years before William Brattle offered the first course in philosophy at Harvard College.

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Research Article
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The Americas , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , October 1944 , pp. 207 - 214
Copyright
Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1944

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References

1 Robles, Oswaldo: Esquema de antropología filosofica, (México, D.F., 1942)Google Scholar; Propedéutica Filosófica: Curso de introducción general a la filosofia (México, D.F., 1943)—A translation of this latter work, prepared by the author of this article, will soon be published by the Bruce Publishing Company in Milwaukee.

2 Derisi, Octavio Nicolás: Concepto de la filosofia cristiana (Buenos Aires, 1935)Google Scholar; La estructura noètica de la sociologia (Buenos Aires, 193 8); Filosofia moderna y filosofia tomista (Buenos Aires, 1941); and, most noteworthy, the masterly Los fundamentos metafísicos del orden moral (Buenos Aires, 1941).

3 la Vera Cruz, Fray Alonso de: Investigación filosófico-natural: Los Libros del Alma, libros I y II; introducción, versión y notas de Oswaldo Robles. Biblioteca de, Filosofía Mexicana, vol. I. (Imprenta Universitaria, México, 1942)Google Scholar.—del Castillo, Lourdes Ortiz: La filosofía natural de los vivientes en Fray Alonso de la Vera Cruz. Anuario de Filosofía del seminario de investigaciones filosóficas de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, vol. I, 1943 (México, 1944), pp. 9–4J Google Scholar.

4 I.e., p.. 40 (my translation.—K.F.R.).

5 Los Libros del Alma, I.e., p. IX (my translation.—K.F.R.).

6 Cf r. Lourdes Ortiz del Castillo, I.e., p. 35 sq.