La filosofía de la naturaleza de Augusto González de Linares (1845-1904)

Abstract

The naturalist Augusto Gonzalez de Linares is known for being the founder of the first Marine Biological Laboratory in Spain, created in 1886, and which was established in Santander in 1890, but he was also interested in Philosophy of Nature, from which focused his activity as a scientific. He taked part in the critical reception of the evolutionist ideas in the Spain of the Restoration, interesting in the work of Darwin and Haeckel. He criticized the “Mecanicism” of Darwin, because he confered the environment as the main cause of the evolutionary process, rejecting the rol of heredity, and also refussed the Materialism of Haekel. The Philosophy of Nature of Augusto Gonzalez de Linares was influenced by the German Naturphilosophie , with special reference to Schelling, Oken, Carus, and to Krause, and includes two aspects. In Ontology, defends the thesis of an organicist Monism, while in Epistemology, argues that it is necessary to reorganize all sciences from the unity that means the Philosophy, proposing a coordination betwen the fact and the idea.