José Ferrater Mora
Catalan philosopher, essayist and writer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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José María Ferrater Mora (Catalan: Josep Ferrater i Mora; 30 October 1912 – 30 January 1991) was a Spanish philosopher, essayist and writer. He is considered the most prominent Catalan philosopher of the 20th-century[1] and was the author of over 35 books, including a four-volume Diccionario de filosofía (Dictionary of Philosophy, 1941) and Being and Death: An Outline of Integrationist Philosophy (1962).[2] Subjects he worked on include ontology, history of philosophy, metaphysics, anthropology, the philosophy of history and culture, epistemology, logic, philosophy of science, and ethics. He also directed several films.[3]
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Born | (1912-10-30)30 October 1912 Barcelona, Spain |
Died | 30 January 1991(1991-01-30) (aged 78) Barcelona, Spain |
Education | University of Barcelona (BA, 1932; BPhil, 1936) |
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Awards | Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise (1984) Creu de Sant Jordi (1984) Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities (1985) |
Era | 20th-century philosophy |
Institutions | Bryn Mawr College |
Doctoral students | Priscilla Cohn |
Other notable students | Javier Muguerza, Shaun Gallagher |
Language | Spanish, Catalan, English |
Main interests | Applied ethics, animal ethics, metaphysics |
Notable ideas | Integrationism, monism sui generis |
Ferrater Mora was known for his inclusion of humans and non-human animals within the same moral sphere, or continuum, arguing that the difference was one of degree, not kind.