Fernando Savater
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Fernando Fernández-Savater Martín (San Sebastián, 1947-). Spanish philosopher and essayist, most famous for his popular books on ethics and his newspaper articles.
He was an Ethics professor at the University of the Basque Country for over a decade. Presently he is Philosophy professor at the Complutense University of Madrid.
He has taken part in several organizations engaged with peace in the Basque Country and against terrorism and Basque nationalism, such as Movimiento por la Paz y la No Violencia, Gesto por la Paz, Foro de Ermua, and currently ¡Basta Ya!.
He is agnostic.
His works include:
- Ensayo sobre Cioran (Essay on Cioran) (1974)
- Panfleto contra el Todo (A Proclamation against Everything) (1978)
- Caronte aguarda (Charon Awaits) (1981)
- La tarea del héroe (The Task of the Hero) (1981)
- Invitación a la ética (An Invitation to Ethics) (1982)
- La infancia recuperada (Childhood Recovered) (1983)
- Sobre vivir (On Living -and Surviving) (1983)
- Las razones del antimilitarismo y otras razones (The Reasons for Antimilitarism and Other Reasons) (1984)
- El contenido de la felicidad (The Contents of Happiness) (1986)
- Ética como amor propio (Ethics as Self-Esteem) (1988)
- Ética para Amador (Ethics for Amador) (1991)
- Política para Amador (Politics for Amador) (1992)
- Sin contemplaciones (Straight Talk) (1993)
- Despierta y lee (Wake Up and Read) (1998)
- Las preguntas de la vida (The Questions of Life) (1999)
- Perdonen las molestias (Sorry for Disturbing) (2001)
- El Gran Laberinto (The Great Labyrinth) (2005)
He has recently founded a new political party called Unión, progreso y democracia (Unity, Progress and Democracy) in order to regenerate the current Spanish political scene.
