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 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 and against terrorism at the Basque Country 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 an atheist.
His works include:
- Ensayo sobre Cioran (Essay about Cioran) (1974)
- Panfleto contra el Todo (Pamphlet against the Everything) (1978)
- Caronte aguarda (Charon the Awaited) (1981)
- La tarea del héroe (The Job of the Hero) (1981)
- Invitación a la ética (Invitation to Ethics) (1982)
- La infancia recuperada (The Recovered Infancy) (1983)
- Sobre vivir (On Living) (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 One's Own Love) (1988)
- Ética para Amador (Ethics for Amador) (1991)
- Política para Amador (Politics for Amador) (1992)
- Sin contemplaciones (Without Contemplations) (1993)
- Despierta y lee (Wake up and Read) (1998)
- Las preguntas de la vida (The Questions of Life) (1999)
- Perdonen las molestias (Pardon the Bothers) (2001)
- El Gran Laberinto (The Great Labyrinth) (2005)
- Los Siete Pecados Capitales (The Seven Cardinal Sins) (2005)
