José Gaos

Who was José Gaos?

José Gaos was a Spanish philosopher who obtained political asylum in Mexico during the Spanish Civil War.

Gaos was a professor of the University of Zaragoza and University of Madrid. In 1939 he relocated to Mexico and taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He was influenced by German philosophers like Martin Heidegger and Nicolai Hartmann and by Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset.

Gaos also was a prolific translator. He translated to the Spanish books of philosophers like Martin Heidegger, John Dewey, Søren Kierkegaard, G. W. F. Hegel, Max Scheler, Immanuel Kant, Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Edmund Husserl.