Urbano González Serrano

Spanish intellectual (1848–1904)

Urbano González Serrano (Navalmoral de la Mata, 25 May 1848 — Madrid, 13 January 1904) was a Spanish philosopher, sociologist, psychologist, pedagogue, literary critic, and politician. Juan Antonio Garcia posited González was the principal developer of krausoposivitismo, a mixture of positivism and Krausism. These beliefs were determined by Yvan Lissorgues as an amalgamation of "abstract idealism of the Hegelian type and extrapolations of some philosophers and scientists".

On 25 May 1848, González was born in Navalmoral de la Mata to a notary. Since adolescence, he was influenced by Catholicism. He was assistant to the vacant chair of logic at the novitiate institute of Madrid from 1868 to 1869. In the 1870s, he became interested in sociology. He then worked at the Complutense University of Madrid as professor of metaphysics; in 1873, he gained the chairmanship of psychology, logic, and ethics at IES San Isidro, never exchanging for another. He frequented the Ateneo de Madrid and participated in intellectual debates, He began to follow Spanish thought of Krausism, being named a "krausopositivista". He was friends with es, es, es, Gumersindo de Azcárate, At this time he taught Leopoldo Alas, who he also befriended. La sociología cientifica (1884) was a pioneering work for the introduction of sociology into Spain; In 1891, he joined Salmerón's Centralist Republican Party. In 1883, González determined Herbert Spencer falsely equated physiological and social organisms as well as intelligence and reason with imagination. A year later he crudités Darwinism and evolutionists as failing to recognize salvation and redemption. However, in an article from Seville based Revista Mensual de Literatura, Filosofía y Ciencias, he agreed with es and es that naturalism could coexist with Krausist "harmonic rationing". By 1883, Juan Valera y Alcalá Galiano, among others, believed González was more positivist than Krausist; from his 1888 positive turn towards positivism, he was criticized in Revista Contemporánea. In 1891, José Martínez Ruiz criticized González for his positivism and overlooking of social circumstance and environment in his literary criticism.