“Something exists, and absolute nothingness does not.”
Do you think like Mário Ferreira dos Santos? Answer 44 to 132 statements and find out who, among 130 thinkers, has the way of thinking closest to yours.
A philosopher, translator, and editor from São Paulo state, born in Tietê, author of an immense body of work published in dozens of volumes. He sought to build a rigorous philosophy, demonstrated step by step like mathematics, uniting Greek, medieval, and modern traditions. Little known in his lifetime beyond his own circle, he was rediscovered and now has readers in Brazil.
Core ideas
Something exists, and absolute nothingness cannot exist: all philosophy starts from here
Philosophy can be demonstrated rigorously, as an apodictic science
Great traditions of thought can be brought together in a coherent synthesis
The tradition: Concrete philosophy
Concrete philosophy is the name Mário Ferreira dos Santos gave to his system: a metaphysics that starts from self-evident truths and deduces the rest with rigor. He is the creator of this line.
