Francisco Miró Quesada Cantuarias (21 December 1918 – 11 June 2019) was a

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philosopher 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 ...

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and

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. In his works he discusses the belief in "human nature" on the basis that any collective assumption about such a nature will be frustrating, and will have negative public results. He was interested in so-called "unorthodox logics". The term "

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" was coined in 1976 by him. He was the first person of the Americas to hold the position of president of the International Federation of Philosophy Societies, elected in Moscow in 1990.

Biography

He was the son of journalist Óscar Miró Quesada de la Guerra and María Josefina Cantuarias Dañino. His father, a renowned social researcher, was director of the newspaper '' El Comercio'' belonging to his family. He completed his school studies, first, at the Pensionnat du Sacré-Coeur de Passy, in Paris, and then at the schools of the Sacred Hearts of Belén and Recoleta, and at the Antonio Raimondi Italian school in Lima. He completed his studies at the Faculty of Arts of the

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, where he graduated from Bachelor of Philosophy with the thesis ''Crítica de la prueba ontológica a través de San Anselmo, Descartes, Spinoza y Leibniz'' (''Critique of the ontological argument through Anselm, Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz'') in 1938, and he continued at the

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, where he studied Philosophy and Mathematics, opting for the degree of doctor with the thesis ''Algunos estudios sobre las categorías. Ensayo de una crítica de la vida sicológica en general'' (''Some studies on the categories. Essay of a critique of psychological life in general'') in 1939. Subsequently, he obtained the bachelors in Mathematics and Law (1953) in the latter university and the title of lawyer. He made his debut in 1941 with ''Sentido del movimiento fenomenológico'' (''Meaning of the phenomenological movement''). The term ''

'' was coined by Miró Quesada at the Third Latin America Conference on Mathematical Logic in 1976. After Miró Quesada graduated from the

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with a doctorate in Philosophy, he began teaching there as a professor of Contemporary Philosophy. Later, in 1952, he was granted a scholarship by

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to go to France, Italy, and England to study the formation of the secondary teaching staff. In 1953, he published the Sunday Supplement (el Suplemento Dominical). In July 1963, during the first Popular Action government, President

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appointed him Minister of Public Education of Peru. As such, he made several innovations, among which highlight the creation of an office dedicated to serving parents, another oriented to the attention of the members of the teachers' union; the massive construction of classrooms using the methods of Popular Cooperation – one of the principles inspired by the acciopopulist ideology; the application, for the first time, of bilingual education methods in Peru; and the incorporation of a high percentage of the primary school population into the education system. In October 1964, he was questioned by the appropriate majority of the National Parliament and censured for leaving the floor without the debate over the alleged illegal transfer of several million soles from his office. During the government of

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, he was an ideologist summoned for this management and worked as a professor at Cayetano Heredia University and Lima University. Upon reaching seventy years of age, he was dismissed at the

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; and went on to work at the Ricardo Palma University. He continues publishing in the newspaper of his family, ''El Comercio de Lima''. From 2003 to September 2008, he served as the journalistic director of the newspaper '' El Comercio''. Francisco Miró Quesada Cantuarias received on 9 December 2008 the Medal of Honor of the Congress of the Republic, in the degree of Grand Officer for his outstanding philosophical work, journalism, political thought and scientific dissemination.

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