Julián Marías

Julián Marías Aguilera ( born June 17, 1914 in Valladolid, † 15 December 2005 in Madrid ) was a Spanish Catholic philosopher, student and friend of José Ortega y Gasset.

Life

Julián Marías lived since 1919 in Madrid, where ( during the period of the second Spanish Republic ), he studied philosophy from 1931 to 1936.

During the Spanish Civil War, he was on the side of the Republic and published articles in the newspapers ABC and Blanco y Negro. After Franco's victory in 1939, he spent several months in captivity, however, dealt with again after his release Philosophy by issued remedial education in this subject. It was his chronologically structured book on the history of philosophy Historia de la Filosofía, which appeared in 1941 and a foundational work of philosophy much used in Spain was.

Because of a critical sentence in his doctoral thesis against Franco's reign his doctorate in 1942 was suspended at the request of the spiritual university management.

In 1948 he founded with José Ortega y Gasset, the " Instituto de Humanidades de Madrid ", of which he was by Ortega y Gasset's death in 1955. In 1949 he received his 1942 work La rejected Metafísica del conocimiento en Gratry ( The metaphysics of knowledge in Gatry ) the doctorate. He represented the Ratiovitalismus, a kind of Catholic existentialism, which is why he was able to resume at Spanish universities during the Franco dictatorship, no teaching. He lived by his publications and working as a visiting professor at universities in the United States, where he represented the Madrid school of philosophy.

In 1941 he married the teacher and writer Dolores Franco Manero, with whom he had five sons, including Javier ( * 1951), writer.

In 1964 he became a member of the Real Academia de la Lengua Española. In the transition phase to democracy, he was in 1977 appointed by the King to the Senator. He held this position until 1979. In 1980 he was admitted as a professor in Spain. In 1982 he was appointed by Pope John Paul II is the only Spaniard in the "International Pontifical Council for Culture." In 1996 he was awarded the prize of the Prince of Asturias for Communication and Humanities.

Significant works

• Historia de la filosofía (1941 )
• San Anselmo y el insensato (1944 )
• Idea de la Metafísica (1954 )
• La escuela de Madrid ( 1960)
• Anthropology filosofica (1970 )
• La España inteligible (1985 )