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Gustavo Bueno
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Gustavo Bueno Martínez
1 September 1924 Santo Domingo de la Calzada, Spain
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| Died | 7 August 2016 (aged 91) Niembro, Asturias, Spain
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| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
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Categorial closure, stroma |
Gustavo Bueno Martínez (born September 1, 1924 – died August 7, 2016) was an important philosopher from Spain. He created his own way of thinking called "philosophical materialism."
Bueno studied under Santiago Montero Díaz. His ideas combined older philosophical teachings, like those from Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, with more modern ones, including Marxism.
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About Gustavo Bueno
Gustavo Bueno Martínez was born in Santo Domingo de la Calzada, Spain, on September 1, 1924. He studied philosophy at the University of Zaragoza and later earned his PhD from the University of Madrid. His PhD paper was about the foundations of the philosophy of religion.
From 1949 to 1960, he taught philosophy and was a principal at a high school in Salamanca. In 1954, he married Carmen Sánchez Revilla. In 1960, he became a professor at the University of Oviedo, teaching about the basics of philosophy. He passed away in Niembro, Asturias, on August 7, 2016.
Philosophical Materialism
Gustavo Bueno's "philosophical materialism" is a detailed way of understanding how reality is built. It's different from other ideas that say everything is either spiritual or just one type of matter.
What it Means
Philosophical materialism believes the world is unique. It sees reality as a mix of many things, not just one simple thing. It doesn't agree that "everything affects everything" (monistic continuity) or that "nothing affects anything" (pluralistic atomism).
Beyond Traditional Materialism
Like other forms of materialism, Bueno's philosophy denies that things are purely spiritual. However, it's unique because it also accepts that some things are real but not physical. For example, the distance between two bottles on a table is real. This distance is "incorporeal material" – it's real and not spiritual, but you can't touch it like a bottle. Bueno used the word "stroma" to describe this broader idea of matter.
Main Ideas
Bueno's system explored several key areas:
- Ontology: This is the study of what exists, both generally and in specific categories.
- Gnosiology: This is the theory of knowledge, especially his idea of "categorical closure."
- Philosophy of religion: This looks at the nature of religion, including the role of animals in its origins.
In his later years, Bueno also focused on topics like ethics, society, and politics. He is well-known for his book España Frente a Europa (Spain Against Europe). In this book, he explored the history of Spain and Europe. He looked at how the idea of a "nation" developed. He argued that the modern idea of a political nation appeared when people fought against old systems of power.
Spain and Empire
Gustavo Bueno's ideas are important for understanding the history of the Spanish empire. He saw the early Asturian kingdom as the beginning of Spain. He believed that Spain's formation as a unique entity in universal history was closely linked to its development as a universal empire.
The Idea of Empire
Bueno thought that "universal history" isn't about all humans, but about the history of empires. He believed that a single, worldwide empire is impossible. This is because an empire always needs other states to exist. The idea of an empire, he argued, can never cover all of humanity.
He also supported the idea of Hispanic countries joining together. He thought that a confederation of Hispanic or Ibero-American states, with a large common market, could help these countries be more independent from other powerful nations.
Filmography
- 2015 – Gustavo Bueno. La vuelta a la caverna (dir. Héctor Muniente) – documentary
See also
In Spanish: Gustavo Bueno para niños
