Una introducción al estudio de las ideas psicológicas del filósofo peruano José Antonio Russo Delgado (1917-1997)

José Antonio Russo Delgado (1917-1997) was a man of letters, a rigorous researcher and the author of various books, essays and newspaper articles. He studied Law and Political Science, as well as Philosophy and Humanities. The objective of this article is to review his psychological ideas and how these have contributed to psychology in Peru. The review of different texts by and about Russo allows us to indicate that his book Lecciones de Psicologia General constitutes the clearest and most systematic expression of José Antonio Russo Delgado interest in psychology, which allows him to be unequivocally positioned in the line of philosophical psychology. His philosophical and psychological ideas expressed in his numerous works, his repeated conferences and his teaching work, would help to cement, in a substantive way, the career of psychology in Peru.