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Mário Ferreira dos Santos (; January 3, 1907 – April 11, 1968) was a Brazilian philosopher, translator, writer and anarchist activist. Born in Tietê, São Paulo, Ferreira dos Santos was raised in
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, Rio Grande do Sul, and graduated in Law and Social Sciences at the
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. A prolific writer and thinker, Ferreira dos Santos published in less than fifteen years the 45-volume Encyclopedia of Philosophical and Social Sciences.


Philosophical work

He created a philosophical system called "concrete philosophy." His system was based on the ''méthode des démonstrations géométriques'' which, according to Ferreira, no possibility of disagreement from its assumptions – which he called "theses". The first thesis is the very foundation of his philosophy: "There is something whilst there isn't the absolute nothing", from which he draws other theses through the methods of geometry.


Selected works


Session I - Enciclopédia das ciências filosóficas Primeira série

* Filosofia e cosmovisão (1952) * Lógica e Dialética (1954) * Psicologia (1954) * Teoria do conhecimento (gnosiologia e criteriologia) (1954) * Ontologia e cosmologia (1954) * Tratado de simbólica (1954) * Filosofia da Crise (1956) * O homem perante o infinito (1964) * Noologia Geral (1956) * Logos (1964) * Filosofia concreta (1957)


Second series

(A) Published * Filosofia Concreta dos Valores (1960) * Sociologia fundamental (1957) * Pitgoras e o tema do número (1956) * Aristóteles e as Mutações (1955) * O Um e o Múltiplo em Platão (1958) * Métodos Lógicos e Dialéticos (1959) * Filosofia da afirmação e da negação (1959) * Tratado de economia, 2 vols. (1962) * Análise de temas sociais, 3 vols. (1962) * Dicionário de Filosofia e Ciências Culturais (1963) * Origem dos Grandes Erros Filosóficos (1965) * Grandezas e misérias da logística (1967) * Erros na filosofia da natureza (1967) * Das categorias, of the Aristotles Portuguese translated (1960) * Isagoge, of the Porfirius Portuguese translated (1965) * Protagoras, of the Plato Portuguese translated (1965) * O apocalipse de São João: A revelação dos livros sagrados (1998) (B) Unpublished * Comentários a S. Boaventura 100p. * As três críticas de Kant 226p. * Comentários aos "Versos Áureos" de Pitágoras 88p. * Cristianismo, a religião do homem 69p. * Tao Te Ching, of the Lao-Tse 85p. (C) Scattered and fragments * Filosofia e romantismo 42p. * Brasil, país de excepção 50p. * A Sabedoria dos Princípios (1967) * A Sabedoria da Unidade (1967)


References

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