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Carlos Vaz Ferreira: Uruguayan Philosopher*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

John H. Haddox
John H. Haddox*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Texas Western College, El Paso, Texas
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Carlos Vaz Ferreira, born at Montevideo, Uruguay in 1872, a graduate of the School of Law, and at twenty-five appointed to the Chair of Philosophy there, was a prolific writer who for more than thirty years presented special lectures open to the general public. As a result he was one of the most influential men of this century in his homeland. Frank and honest and intensely stimulating, Aníbal Sánchez Reulet has termed Vaz Ferreira an “intellectual pontiff.”

From 1929 to 1941 he was, off and on, the Rector of the University and in 1945 he became Director of the School of Humanities in Montevideo, which position he held until his death in 1959.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Inter-American Studies , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , October 1966 , pp. 595 - 600
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 1966

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Footnotes

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A version of this paper was presented at the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Latin American Studies, University of Miami, March 18-19, 1966.

References

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3 Sciacca, M., Philosophical Trends in the Contemporary World (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1964), p. 646.Google Scholar

4 Ferreira, C. Vaz, Fermentario (Montevideo: Tipografía Atlántida, 1938), p. 23.Google Scholar The translations of the selections in this article are by A. Sánchez Reulet.

5 Ibid., p. 42.

6 Ibid., p. 46.

7 Ibid., p. 204.

8 Ibid., p. 205.

9 Ibid., p. 206.

10 These examples are to be found scattered throughout a chapter of Fermentario titled ¿Cual es el signo de la inquietud humana? (pp. 204-217).

11 Ibid., p. 206.

12 Ibid., p. 20.

13 Ibid., pp. 207-208.

14 Ibid., pp. 215-216.

15 Ibid., p. 213.

16 Ibid., p. 217.

17 Reulet, A. Sánchez, Contemporary Latin American Philosophy, p. 121.Google Scholar