An Enlightened Path to Positivism? Reflections on the Institutionalization of Science in Bourbon Spain

Ortiz-Iribas, Jorge Fernández-Santos; Ederra, Sara Muniain

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-65762-2_5

The Worlds of Positivism 2018

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65762-2_5

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An Enlightened Path to Positivism? Reflections on the Institutionalization of Science in Bourbon Spain

Jorge Fernández-Santos Ortiz-Iribas¹,

Sara Muniain Ederra²

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“…Neither Krausists nor Catholics welcomed the intruder. The Krausists, even the most conciliatory-the so-called "krausopositivists"-could not accept the antispeculative or even antimetaphysical attitude that they perceived in the new scientific mentality (Fernández-Santos & Muniain, 2018). For their part, Catholic intellectuals saw in the neo-Kantian school and in Darwinism a new offensive by the Protestant mentality to destabilize Catholic societies and their intellectual support, the philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas.…”

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Neo-Catholics against new psychology in 19th century Spain: The journal La Ciencia Cristiana (1877–1887).

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In the 1870s, Krausists and Catholics struggled for hegemony in Spanish educational institutions. In the midst of the fray, a group of neo-Kantian intellectuals, led by José del Perojo, set out to renew psychology in Spain by introducing Wundt's physiological psychology and Darwinian evolutionism. Neither Catholics nor Krausists welcomed the proposal. In the case of Catholics, the fundamentalist group led by professor of metaphysics Juan Manuel Ortí y Lara founded the journal La Ciencia Cristiana [Christian Science] to counter the neo-Kantian and Darwinian influences. In this article, I present a selection of texts from the journal to show how the editors tried to discredit the foundations of physiological psychology and evolutionism, as well as to promote a scholastic philosophy based on the literal interpretation of the texts of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Finally, I suggest that the identification of Catholic philosophy with fundamentalist scholasticism delayed the development of neo-scholastic psychology in Spain.

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