Antonio Caso Andrade, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Antonio Caso Andrade

Mexican philosopher

Date of Birth: 19-Dec-1883

Place of Birth: Mexico City, Mexico

Date of Death: 06-Mar-1946

Profession: writer, university teacher, sociologist, philosopher

Nationality: Mexico

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Antonio Caso Andrade

  • Antonio Caso Andrade (December 19, 1883 – March 6, 1946) was a Mexican philosopher and rector of the former Universidad Nacional de México, nowadays known as the National Autonomous University of Mexico from December 1921 to August 1923.
  • Along with José Vasconcelos, he founded the Ateneo de la Juventud, a humanist group against philosophical positivism.
  • The Athenian generation opposed Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer’s philosophical views, giving credence to and expanding on the ideas of Henri Bergson, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and José Enrique Rodó.
  • Caso opposed rationalism.
  • His group the ateneistas believed in a moral, willing, and spiritual individual being.
  • He was the older brother of archaeologist Alfonso Caso.

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