Abstract

The Noucentisme was, in the first twenty years of the XX century, the leading movement in the Catalan cultural life. It was characterized by important positivist and pragmatist influences. In this period two interesting philosophical reflections appeared, both characterized by the fundamental role of human being’s biological aspect. One was published by Eugeni d'Ors between 1909 and 1910, while the other is the main contribution to philosophy of the Barcelona-born scientist Ramon Turró. Although the starting point of both theory was the idea that the foundation of existence is essentially biological and that it is necessary to search in the biological itself for the origin and meaning of man's relationship with the external environment, each one of the thinkers developed his own independent theory and came to different conclusions and interpretations of the world, sometimes even opposed.