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LEONARDO
POLO
LIFE & WORKS
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TIMELINE
Childhood University and Discovery Silence Mature Works Retirement
The 5 periods of Leonardo Polo
First Works
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Wedding Photograph
Unknown Couple
Madrid 20’s
Unknown Child
Madrid 20’s
Lycée Français
Marques de la Ensenada
Madrid 30’s
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MADRID 1926
Alcalá Street
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MADRID 1936
Soldiers being enlisted
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Interview to his father
D. Leonardo Polo Pérez
while being a City
Council
Member of Madrid in
1937
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ALBACETE 1937 His father was appointed prosecutor in the Justice Tribunal of Albacete.
He had to go on exile after the war in 1939
Instituto Sabuco Albacete Lieutenant Adelina Kondrátieva, en Albacete (1937)
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MADRID 1939 INSTITUTO CARDINAL CISNEROS
L Polo repeated one course due to new study regulations after the civil war.
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Jaime Balmes (1810 –1848)
At 14 he read the “Fundamental Philosophy” of Jaime
Balmes, who initiated him in the world of Philosophy. From
there he started reading assiduously all the books in his
grandfather library which was a large one
English version copy in the open library
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COMPLUTENSE UNIVERSITY MADRID 1949-1952
He finished law in 1949 and started Philosophy and doctorate in Law in 1950
Faculty of Law
Madrid
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AGUSTÍN BARRENA Y ALONSO DE OJEDA
Advocate 1899-1968
Maternal uncle
in which firm
he worked after
finishing his
degree in Law
in 1949
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Jose Ortega y Gasset
Prominent Spanish Philosophers whose lectures he atended while at University
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AHA MOMENT
“… it suddenly occurred to me,
period.
I was thinking about thinking and being,
and about what being had to do with
thinking; then I realized that we cannot
arrive at being if one does not abandon
the supposition of the object” 1950 Summer
with friends in the
Muelle de la Reina
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ROME 1952-1954 He devoted about 12 hours per day to read philosophy
St. Josemaría use to tell him ´my philosopher´ and ´write what you are thinking´
St. Josemaría and
Javier Echevarría
Rome 1950
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PAMPLONA 1954-1966 Started teaching in the just started Faculty of Law and helped in the start of the Philosophy and Arts Faculty that began
in 1955
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UNIVERSIDAD NAVARRA 1954-1966 The university started in 1952 as Estudio General
using historical lended bulidings in Pamplona
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GRANADA 1966-1968
Obtained the chair of Philosophy in the University of Granada where he stayed only for one academic year
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GRANADA 1966-1968
Rectorado of the University of Granada
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BACK TO UNIVERSIDAD DE NAVARRA 1968-1996
He returned to the University of Navarra; now as a Professor where he stayed until his retirement
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The poor reception and the critics or rather indiference to his theories
made him dessist to continue publishing and started his long period of silence
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UNIVERSIDAD DE NAVARRA 1968-1996
Attentive to the questions raised during one of his presentations
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Oblivious of the surroundings; while others are being filmed he is deeply in thougth
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UNIVERSIDAD DE NAVARRA 1968-1996
His most characteristic pose while lecturing
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TO GAIN IN HUMILY:
PAMPLONA!
Para humildad; ¡Pamplona!
For many years he did not have an
office, like most professors, but a
desk in between the rows of books
in the library.
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Universidad de Piura (Perú)
From 1974 to 1996 he will travel to Latin America - Mexico, Colombia, Peru and Chile- to assist in training factulty members during the Spanish summer
vacations
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1984 1985 1988 1994 1996
The five volumes of his Theory of Knowledge Course are an impressive
work of epistemology that were worked during his years of silence and are
one of his most complete contributions to this field
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1999 2003
The two volumes of Transcendental Anthropology mark the ápex and completion of his originally
envisoned work. They are his more mature works and probably the aim of his philosophical life.
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Handwritten
corrections to his
book on Hegel
Signature
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With the publication of Antropología Transcendental Leonardo Polo´s original
project of the 1950´s is completed
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UNIVERSIDAD DE NAVARRA 1968-1996
Characteristic pose when explaining something difficult
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UNIVERSIDAD DE NAVARRA 1968-1996
RETIREMENT 1996
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RETIREMENT 1996-2013 During his retirement, and due to a cerebral stroke he revised transcriptions of his lectures, taped by his disciples from 1982
and played mus
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Nevertheles he
would
occasionaly
participate in
activities, like
the defenses of
doctoral thesis
at the University
of Navarre
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CHARLES III Medal Award The Government of Navarra recognized his contribution to the region by awarding him the Carlos III medal in 2008
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BURIAL
He died on 9 February 2013 and was buried in Pamplona the following day
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Text based on the article of María José Franquet,
"Trayectoria intelectual de Leonardo Polo", en Anuario filosófico, XXIX
(1996), pp. 303-22, and conversations with Juan Fernando Sellés.
Photographs of Leonardo Polo from www.leonardopolo.net
Newspaper cuttings from http://hemeroteca.abc.es
Prepared and shown on 22nd March 2013 at Strathmore University,
Nairobi, Kenya by John Branya