Edmundo Cetina Velázquez

Mexican philosopher

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Edmundo Cetina Velázquez (1896–1959) was a Mexican philosopher and writer from Tenosique, Tabasco. He was born in 1896 and died in 1959. He was the son of Joaquin Cetina Moreno and Maria de Jesus Velázquez. He studied at the Instituto Juárez and later became a self-taught physician and a passionate student of philosophy and exact sciences. He wrote several essays on topics such as metaphysics, ethics, logic, mathematics, physics, and biology. Some of his writings are: Algunos balbuceos sobre una filosofía de la vida (Some Babblings on a Philosophy of Life), Algunos aspectos de la Relatividad (Some Aspects of Relativity), La vida y la muerte (Life and Death), El problema del conocimiento (The Problem of Knowledge), and El problema del ser (The Problem of Being). He also wrote poetry and was influenced by the modernist movement.