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| | Hostos, Eugenio MarÃa de - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | HOSTOS, EUGENIO MARÍA DE [Hostos, Eugenio María de], 1839-1903, Latin American philosopher, sociologist, writer, and political and educational reformer, b. |
 | | He is widely known throughout Latin America as a publicist of civic reforms, as a rationalist in ethics who believed that "to be civilized and to be moral is the same thing," and as a writer of sober, graceful, and didactic prose. |
 | | He wrote approximately 50 volumes, among which are La peregrinación de Bayoán (1863), a political novel; Moral social (1888); Lecciones de derecho constitucional (1887); and a superb essay, Hamlet (1873). |
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