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Julián Marías Aguilera
He is the philosopher, sociologist and prose writer and was born in Valladolid,Spain on the 17th of June 1914.
When he was five years old he moved to Madrid with his family. There he studied secondary education in the Cardenal Cisneros secondary school and then he received a Ph.D. from the Complutense University, where Zubiri and José Ortega y Gasset were two of his teachers. He met the latter in 1932 and was his disciple and friend for 23 years. Along with Ortega y Gasset he was cofounder of the Humanities Institute of Madrid and later became its director.
He is a great continuer of and gives an impulse to the work of Ortega and has extended and updated to the Ortegian idea of "vital reason". He is also a great student of Unamuno. The tree 1935 in 1936 he was editor of "Cuadernos" published by the faculty of philosophy and literature in Madrid. He also collaborated with the "Cruz y Raya" magazine and in 1934 his first works appeared in this magazine.
Following the pause caused by the Spanish Civil War, in which was imprisoned for three months because of a false charge and three began in August 1939, he went through some difficulties in order to be able to publish his articles that he was prohibited from working as the lecturer in philosophy and literature. In 1941 he was able to publish his first work "The History of Philosophy" in "Revista de Occidente", which is followed by the publication of "The Philosophy of Father Gratry", the book entitled "Miguel de Unamuno", several translations of classics and an anthology entitled "El tema del hombre".
At the beginning of the fifties, and having been "vetoed" from accessing the Chair which Ortega had left empty, Julián Marías gave courses as a guest lecturer in the North American universities of California, Harvard, Yale, and Puerto Rico.
In October 1964 he was elected a number to member of the Royal Academy of Spanish and occupied the chair of the letter "S", which Wenceslao Fernández Florez had left vacant. On the 20th of June 1965 he read his inaugural speech about “The Historical and Social Reality of Linguistic Use" and was responded by Rafael Lapesa.
In 1971 he was elected the correspondent of the Arts and Sciences Academy of Puerto Rico. Julián Marías is also a member of the "Hispanic Society of America", New York; all of the "Institut International de Philosophie", of the "International Society for the History of Ideas" and of the "Council of Scholars" of the Library of Congress in Washington.
In June 1977 King Juan Carlos named him to Royal Senator and in January 1979 he was elected president of the Sociological Studies Foundation (FUNDES).
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