Jenaro Abasolo: on the gravitation of idealism in the conception of science

Abstract

In this article we present the conception of the “science” of the Chilean philosopher Jenaro Abasolo (1833-1884) from the investigation of some of his conceptual debts contracted with six source authors. Fichte, Schelling, Krause, Ahrens, Darwin and Quinet are the ones who allow Abasolo to establish a particular attempt at synthesis between the discoveries of positive science and the principles common to the forms of idealism. These principles serve Abasolo to maintain a spiritualist perspective that is compatible with the new findings that the natural sciences bring from sensitive data. As a correlate, Abasolo believes that philosophy has a fundamental role when it comes to giving a unitary vision of the universe from finding the link between the qualitative and quantitative relationships of the real. In turn, it outlines the way in which the analysis of the physical-natural dimension would contribute to the interpretation of the human world of freedom and how the sciences would allow to find various coordinates capable of adequately guiding man in his development toward the constitution of the that Abasolo defines as a political personality.