Juan José Urráburu (1844–1904) was a Spanish Jesuit and a scholastic philosopher who worked for some time as a professor of philosophy at the Gregorian University in Rome. Beginning in 1890, he published eight large volumes treating of Scholastic philosophy under the title Institutiones Philosophicae. The last volume appeared in 1900, though he reworked the Institutiones into the slightly abbreviated five-volume Compendium Philosophiae Scholasticae.
He joined the Society of Jesus on May 3, 1860, in Loyola. After completing his studies, he began teaching rhetoric and humanities. He also taught philosophy and theology in Poyanne, France. In 1878, Urráburu was appointed to teach philosophy at the Gregorian University. Nine years later, he returned to Spain to take on administrative roles, serving as rector of the College of Valladolid (1887-1890), the Colegio Máximo de Oña (1891-1897), and the Jesuit seminary of Salamanca (1898-1902). [1]
During this period, he published his renowned manuals Institutiones Philosophicae (8 volumes, Valladolid, 1890-1900), later summarized in Compendium Philosophiae Scholasticae (5 volumes, Valladolid, 1902-1904; republished in 1924 and 1927). These works integrated into the Scholastic tradition the elements he found valuable in rationalism and empiricism while rejecting what he deemed insufficient in these schools of thought.
The influence of Saint Thomas Aquinas and Francisco Suárez is predominant in his writings, although traces of the thought of René Descartes, Christian Wolff, and Immanuel Kant are also noticeable.
Perrier, Joseph Louis (1909). The Revival of Scholastic Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century. Columbia University Press.
So What's New About Scholasticism?. Ed. Rajesh Heynickx and Stephane Symons. Walter de Gruyter GmbH. ISBN 9783110588255.
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