Philosophical Materialism

Can you tell me a bit more about his overall ideas and where he's coming from?

>>9998428
He denies the posibility of incorporeal life.
The fundamental concept in his thinking is the greek term Symploké. Gustavo Bueno is a pluralist: he doesn't hold that there are infinite realities or ideas, and denies that the relationships between them are infinite.
In order for knowledge to exist there has to be a selective set of relationships between ideas. If the ideas are isolated (you can't draw any relationships): you would need to know all ideas in order to know one specific idea. In the other hand, if all the ideas where connected to one another you would only need to gain the knowledge of one to know all of them. Thus, his philosophy stands beyond nihilism (nothing correlates to nothing) and metaphysics (everything is connected to everything).

He developed the theory of categorical closure. The sciences do not have an object of study. Instead, they have a field of study, in wich the ideas are interconnected in Symploké.

So, for example, a postmodernist like Jacques Derrida states that "Everything is a text." The philosophy of Gustavo denies that. The philologists would only apply to their own field of study. If everything was text, the philologists would be doctors, and they would cure cancer just by talking to it.

>>9998428
He comes from Spain.
He was considered a leftist when the dictator Franco ruled. Then he was thought to be a fascist in the times of democracy...
Gustavo Bueno died last year.

>>9998415
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