Francisco Romero (philosopher)

Francisco Romero (Sevilla, 1891 - Buenos Aires, 1962) was a Latin American philosopher, considered a leader in the philosopher movement in the Latin American countries, especially in Argentina.

He was an influential critic and a translator from the German works of others. Romero defends a structural conception of reality against David Hume, rationalism, biological evolutionism and all atomistic conceptions. True being is identified by Romero with transcendence, with personality as its function.

Selected works

• Old and New Concepts of Reality (1932)
• The Problems of Philosophy of Culture (1938)
• Program of a Philosophy (1940)