Antonio Caso Andrade was born in December 19, 1883 and died March 6, 1946. He was a Mexican philosopher. He was rector of the then National University of Mexico from December 1921 to August 1923. Together with José Vasconcelos, they founded the Ateneo de la Juventud, humanist group opposed to the positivist philosophy prevailing at the time. The generation of the Ateneo had broken with the philosophy of Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer, attending, among others, Henri Bergson, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and José Enrique Rodó. Against the prevailing rationalism, the Ateneistas believed in a moral human being, willing and spiritual. In the summer of 1909, Caso introduced its criticism of positivism in a series of lectures collected later in the third edition of Conference of the Ateneo de la Juventud. His most important work is The existence and economy, such as selflessness and charity. Caso rejected the thesis of Gabino Barreda and first Justo Sierra whereby Mexico's future should be built primarily on the basis of a scientific doctrine. Catholicism, Jacobinism and Positivism?, Included in the book Speeches to the Mexican nation, deepens his critique Case two hegemonic ideologies in the late nineteenth century: Jacobinism and positivism. The supporters of the first accused of ignoring reality, while those of the second under going blames the alleged inevitability of reality.
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