Xavier Zubiri
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| Born | 4 December 1898 Donostia-San Sebastián |
| Died | 21 September 1983 Madrid |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
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Xavier Zubiri (Donostia-San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, Spain, 4 December 1898 – Madrid, 21 September 1983) was a Spanish philosopher.
He was a member of the School of Madrid, composed by philosophers José Ortega y Gasset, Julián Marías and Pedro Laín Entralgo, among others. Zubiri's philosophy has been categorized as a "materialist open realism", which "attempted to reformulate classical metaphysics, in a language that was entirely compatible with modern science". This relates to Xavier Zubiri's educational background. Zubiri first received a philosophical and theological formation in Madrid and Rome. Later, he deepend his studies in philosophy through his graduate studies in Louvain, writing his dissertation on phenomenology. In 1929, Zubiri's critical interest in this current of thought took him to Freiburg, when he already was a professor in Madrid. There, he studied with Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. In 1930, Zubiri moved to Berlin, where he studied physics, philology and biology. There, he was hosted in Harnack House, which enabled Zubiri to socialize with important minds of this great period of academic activity in the Weimar republic. For example, Albert Einstein (whom Zubiri had already met in Madrid, at Universidad Central, in 1923),Max Planck, Werner Jaeger, Erwin Schrödinger, among others.
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