Residence Brazil Region Western philosophy | Nationality Brazilian Era 20th-century philosophy | |
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Born 3 January 1907 Tietê, São Paulo, Brazil Died 11 April 1968, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Influenced by Aristotle, Plato, Thomas Aquinas, Karl Marx Schools Pythagoreanism, Platonism, Thomism, Scotism, Mutualism Main interests Logic, Ontology, Epistemology, Psychology, Sociology Similar Olavo de Carvalho, Aristotle, Plato, Thomas Aquinas, Otto Maria Carpeaux | ||
Mário Ferreira dos Santos (January 3, 1907 – April 11, 1968) was a Brazilian philosopher. Born in Tietê, São Paulo, Ferreira dos Santos was raised in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, and graduated in Law and Social Sciences at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.
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A prolific writer and thinker, Ferreira dos Santos published in less than fifteen years the 45-volume Encyclopedia of Philosophical and Social Sciences.
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.
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