Leonardo Polo (1926-2013) is a renowned Spanish philosopher best known for his philosophical method called the abandonment of the mental limit and for the profound philosophical im...ver másLeonardo Polo (1926-2013) is a renowned Spanish philosopher best known for his philosophical method called the abandonment of the mental limit and for the profound philosophical implications and results of the application of this method, especially his proposal of a transcendental anthropology.Leonardo Polo's philosophical work can be inserted within the recurring questions of the last few centuries regarding freedom as transcendental and of its relation to earlier perennial or classical philosophy. It is here that Polo's historical significance lies insofar as he boldly proposes a methodology that opens the way for a metaphysics of freedom or, better said, a theory of the person that responds to the concerns of modern and contemporary philosophy and which continues and expands the achievements of classical and medieval philosophy (especially Thomas Aquinas’ real distinction between esse and essentia). What Polo proposes is a transcendental anthropology and the methodology that makes this possible is the abandonment of the mental limit.Polo's methodology of the abandonment of the mental limit consists of detecting the mental limit in conditions such that it can be abandoned.ver menos