Argentina is the first country across the ocean to receive the visit of Cornelio Fabro. Here he participates at the International Congress of Philosophy held in Mendoza, Argentina, in March-April, 1949.

“It was the First International Congress on Philosophy after the end (still smoking) of the war, which had shaken the entire world and disturbed the universal conscience….The Argentinian government, guided by Juan Perón, put a special airplane at our disposition. We left from the Ciampino Airport, and with layovers in Madrid, Casablanca, Dakkar, Port Natal, and Buenos Aires, we finally reached Mendoza, at the foot of the Andes, a province fruitful in wine and oil, through the work, especially, of Italian emigrants.”

At the conclusion of the congress, while all those participating accepted the prolongation of their stay, offered by Perón, Prof. Ugo Spirito and Cornelio Fabro immediately returned to Italy.”

Named Honorary Professor of Philosophy by the University of Buenos Aires, Fabro remains tied to Argentinean thinkers, particularly to Father Julio Meinvielle. He and his “Argentinean friends” also insisted and contributed economically to the publication of the second edition of Nozione metafisica di partecipazione (Metaphysical Notion of Participation) and then asked Fabro for a critical study of the anthropological turn (anthropologische Wende) of Karl Rahner. For the fiftieth anniversary of his priestly ordination, he receives the Medal of the Virgin of Luján from the Asociación Argentina de Cultura.