Mário Ferreira dos Santos

Mário Ferreira dos Santos
Born 3 January 1907
Tiete, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Died 11 April 1968 (aged 61)
Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Residence Brazil
Nationality Brazilian
Era 20th-century philosophy
Region Western philosophy
School Pythagoreanism
Platonism
Thomism
Scotism
Mutualism
Main interests

Mário Ferreira dos Santos (January 3, 1907 – April 11, 1968) was born in Tietê, São Paulo,[1] and raised in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul. Graduated in Law and in Social Sciences from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.

Remarkable writer and thinker, published in less than fifteen years the Encyclopedia of Philosophical and Social Sciences, with 45 volumes.[2]

Thought

He created a philosophical system called Concrete Philosophy. His system was based on the méthode des démonstrations géométriques, with no possibility of disagreement from its assumptions – which he called "theses". The first thesis is the very foundation of his philosophy: "There is something whilst there isn't the absolute nothing", from which he draws other theses through the methods of geometry.[3]

Selected Works

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Portuguese

References

  1. ↑ "Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 25 (1):69 - 70 (1969) - P. Stanislavs Ladusãns - Mário Ferreira dos Santos". Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  2. ↑ "Publicações de Mário Ferreira dos Santos". Retrieved 23 December 2014.
  3. ↑ "Carlos Aurélio Mota de Souza - Mário Ferreira dos Santos y su filosofia concreta". Retrieved 23 December 2014.