Arturo Andrés Roig (16 JulyAccording to the Spanish-language Wikipedia article, Arturo Andrés Roig's birth was officially registered on 16 September of the same year, which is the date given by some sources, including th
biography by Carlos Pérez Zavala
for Roig's actual birth. Th
obituary
included in the External Links gives Roig's birthdate as 16 July 2012. 1922 – 30 April 2012) was an

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Biography

Born in Mendoza, he entered the

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, and graduated in 1949 with a degree in Education Sciences (''Profesor de Enseñanza Secundaria, Normal y Especial en Filosofía''). Roig continued his studies at the Sorbonne. He returned to Argentina, and in 1955 he began teaching philosophy at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, with a special interest in local philosophers. This interest subsequently expanded to national and

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n philosophers. Roig also studied German philosopher

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, and authored his first book on the panentheist thinker's influence in Argentina. He is famous for being one of the best developed examples of Latin American Philosophy, and for his vast amount of

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works, for which he has received widespread recognition and

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Bibliography

* ''Los krausistas argentinos'' (1969) * ''El espiritualismo argentino entre 1850 y 1900'' (1972) * ''Platón o la filosofía como libertad y espectativa'' (1972) * ''Esquemas para una historia de la filosofía ecuatoriana'' (1977) * ''Teoría y crítica del pensamiento latinoamericano'' (1981) * ''Filosofía, universidad y filósofos en América Latina'' (1981) * ''El pensamiento social de Juan Montalvo'' (1984) * ''El Humanismo ecuatoriano de la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII'' (1984) * ''Bolivarismo y filosofía latinoamericana'' (1984) * ''Narrativa y cotidianidad'' (1984) * ''El pensamiento latinoamericano del siglo XIX'' (1986) * ''La utopía del Ecuador'' (1987) * ''Pensamiento filosófico de Hernán Malo González'' (1989) * ''Historia de las ideas, teoría del discurso y pensamiento latinoamericano'' (1991) * ' (1993) * ''El pensamiento latinoamericano y su aventura'' (1994) * ''Ética del poder y moralidad de la protesta'' (1996) * ''La universidad cacia la democracia'' (1998)

Awards

Argentina * ''Distinción General José de San Martín'' (1994) * ' (1994) - Universidad Nacional del Comahue * ''Doctor Honoris Causa'' (1996) - Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto * ''

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1996: Ética'' Cuba * ''Visitante ilustre de la Universidad de las Villas'' (1993) Ecuador * ''Condecoración al mérito cultural'' (1983) * ''Orden Nacional Honorato Vázquez'' (1992) * ' (1994) - Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar Nicaragua * ''Doctor

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'' (1994) - Universidad Autónoma de Managua

Notes and references

External links

The Contribution of Arturo Andres Roig to Contemporary Philosophy

Arturo Andrés Roig (1922-2012) IN MEMORIAM.
Obituary on the site of the Facultad de Humanidades of the Universidad de la República, Uruguay.

Homenaje a Arturo Roig y

Arturo Ardao Arturo Ardao ( Minas, Lavalleja, 27 September 1912 – Montevideo, 22 September 2003) was a Uruguayan philosopher and historian of ideas. From 1968 to 1972 he was dean of the Faculty of Humanities. Before the Military Coup in 1973, he was forced ...

, Edward Demenchónok {{DEFAULTSORT:Roig, Arturo Andres 1922 births 2012 deaths People from Mendoza, Argentina Argentine people of Catalan descent National University of Cuyo alumni University of Paris alumni Academic staff of the National University of Cuyo Argentine male writers 20th-century Argentine philosophers 21st-century Argentine philosophers