Gumersindo de Azcárate is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Gumersindo de Azcárate as Spanish philosopher, jurist and politician (1840-1917).
Gumersindo de Azcárate was born at León in 1840. His recorded nationality is Spain. He studied at Universidad Central.
The nineteenth century produced systems on a grand scale, and then the reaction against them.
His academic posts were held at Universidad Central.
A philosophical position survives not by being proved but by resisting every attempt to dispose of it.
That the work was done from Spain matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Gumersindo de Azcárate died in 1917, aged 77. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Held posts at Universidad Central
