Hermandad De La Buena Suerte, La (Autores Espanoles E Iberoamericanos) (Spanish Edition) - Paperback

281pp , ABOUT THE AUTHOR :: Fernando Fernández- Savater Martín (San Sebastián , June 21, 1947 ) is a philosopher , activist and prolific Spanish writer. Novelist and playwright , stands in the field trial and the newspaper article . His works have been awarded numerous premios.Savater is a prolific author , defined as a " philosopher company " in the style of the French philosophes , not as an academic philosopher and capitalized. His philosophy is illustrated and lively ; its form of expression , controversial and iconoclastic ; their opinions often sail upstream. The sharp , incisive and ironic style of Savater seen clearly in his newspaper articles , the genre he likes to write. He admits influenced by Nietzsche , Cioran and Spinoza , among others. In the seventies he was long considered a disciple of Agustín García Calvo , but since 1981 their paths diverge significantly. As he writes in his autobiography Look where , " was instrumental in my intellectual and moral evolution find no less then detach from it" .3 Following Spinoza, advocates an ethic of love as opposed to an ethic of duty. Human beings naturally seek their own happiness and ethics helps clarify this will and show ways of realization. Therefore ethics should not judge the actions by abstract and alien to one's own happiness criteria. His political philosophy has evolved from libertarian thought , which remained in the seventies to the democratic , social democratic , liberal and universalist individualism later stage. The turning point of the young to the mature Savater can be placed Homework Hero (1981 ) , where he writes : "I have been a revolutionary without anger ; I hope to be a conservative without turpitude" . It has also often reflected on the role of religions in today's democratic societies , advocating a model of secular society in its broadest sense , to help cope not only theocratic approaches, " but also the identity sectarianism of ethnicities , nationalism and any intending to submi