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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