Roberto Daniel Agramonte y Pichardo (3 May 1904 – 12 December 1995) was a

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and Cuban

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Education and career

He graduated from the University of Havana School of Law. Dr. Agramonte was also the Dean of School of

Philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

and Letters at the

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. From 1947 to 1948, he was the

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of Cuba to

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. In 1948, he returned to Cuba to run for Vice-President of Cuba with Dr.

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(as President), but the election was won by Carlos Prio Socarras. He was the first

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of the

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. He later resigned because of the Communist tilt of the government. In May 1960, he left Cuba for

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with his family.

Personal life

He was the son of Frank Agramonte and María Pichardo y Pichardo. He was married to Concha María de la Concepción del Río y Madueño and they had two children, Roberto and Conchita Agramonte-del Rio.

Publications

*La biología de la democracia (1927), *Programa de filosofía moral (1928), *Tratado de psicología general: un estudio sistemático de la conducta humana, 2t, (1935, 1959); *Biografía del dictador García Moreno (1935) (premiada), *El pensamiento filosófico de Varona (1935); *Varona, el filósofo del escepticismo creador (1938, 1949) (premiada), *Varona: Su vida, su obra y su influencia (Investigación compartida con Elías Entralgo y Medardo Vitier); *Sociología (1947, 1949). *José A. Caballero y los orígenes de la conciencia cubana (1952), *Sociología de la Universidad (1950, 1958), *Mendieta Nuñez y su magisterio sociológico (1961); *Sociología contemporánea (1963); *Sociología latinoamericana (1963); *Principios de sociología: un libro para latinoamericanos (1965); *Martí y su concepción del mundo (1971); *Sociología: Curso Introductorio (1972, 1978); *Martí y su concepción de la sociedad Parte I (1979), Parte II (1984);

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Agramonte, Roberto 1904 births 1995 deaths People from Villa Clara Province Partido Ortodoxo politicians Ministers of foreign affairs of Cuba Ambassadors of Cuba to Mexico Cuban diplomats Cuban revolutionaries People of the Cuban Revolution Exiles of the Cuban Revolution in the United States 1950s in Cuba 20th-century Cuban politicians