 Eduardo Nicol founded the Metaphysics Seminar at the Department of Philosophy of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where he taught with rigor and brilliance, and in 1955 he founded the influential journal Dianoia, still published today. For Nicol, philosophy ought to recover its place as the primary science. His metaphysics, dialectical in essence, wanted to reconcile being and representation, and truth and history. All of his works were written in Mexico, including: La idea del hombre (1946), Metafísica de la expresión (1957), and Los principios de la ciencia (1965).