This insistence on the need for positivity in all knowledge, in an attitude of deterministic reductionism, led Silva Dias, shortly after the book’s publication, in O Problema da Europa, to denounce the a priori schematism resulting from the application of a physicalist paradigm to historical and social reality, which can lead to the historical subject’s abdication of responsibility. Norberto Cunha, in his profound studies on the entirety of our polymath’s work, shows how the paradoxes and contradictions found in Abel Salazar’s creative and genuine thinking reflect an incessant search for intelligibility, for Forms, whose horizon perhaps goes beyond the positivism he claimed was necessary for the progress of mentalities, moving in the direction of democracy.

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