Manuel Sánchez Cuesta

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Manuel Sánchez Cuesta
Spanish philosopher

Manuel Sánchez Cuesta (born May 13, 1952, in

ethicist and humanist
.

He studied in the University of Salamanca, Complutense University of Madrid, Heidelberg University and the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome. He is Philosophical Doctor. Since 1991 he is professor of ethics in the Complutense University of Madrid. He has also taught logic at the same university, Spanish literature and Spanish history of philosophy at the Heidelberg University as well as ethics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico. Amongst other publications, he has regularly written about ethics and politics in the newspaper Diario 16, the paper Acontecimiento, as well as about history of philosophy in the weekly magazine El Médico.

Intellectual profile

His areas of research have focussed on the subjects of logic, history of philosophy and, in particular, ethics. In the existential-personalistic humanism of Sánchez Cuesta [1] the everyday stands in the center of his ethical reflection. It is in the everyday, in fact, where the time of each human being is transmuted into an indefinite number of possibilities that are permanently open him or her. In consequence, the person can not only be able to trace the goal that it aspires, but also provide it with a substantiating virtuous character. "Whoever succeeds - writes Agapito Maestre (translated) - to live his daily life morally, and this and no other is the therapeutic value of this work [Note: that of Sánchez Cuesta], will have managed to make the carpe diem of the classics [Note: philosophers] come true." [2]

The following applies to the writings of Professor Sánchez Cuesta in general. As one of his books´ review [The ethics of the Greeks (translated) or, La ética de los griegos (original title)] by Professor José Miguel Marinas summarizes: "And here is undoubtedly the main attraction of an elegant work with apparently simple looks: is the text of a free man, which is aimed at adult readers" .[3]

Publications

Books

Essays

Notes

  1. ^ In the book "Spanish Philosophical Thinking" (translated) of Maceiras, M. and others, Pensamiento filosófico español, Vol. II (Del Barroco a nuestros días), Madrid, 2002, p. 318,
    ISBN 84-7738-980-2
    and also in "Men and documents of the Spanish philosophy" (translated) of Díaz Díaz, Gonzalo, Hombres y documentos de la filosofía española, Volume III (letters N-Z), edition and coordination by Antonio Heredia Soriano (currently being printed), the motivations behind the works of the philosopher Sánchez Cuesta are described.
  2. ^ Maestre, Agapito, El placer de la lectura, Madrid: Oberón. 2007.
    ISBN 978-84-96511-42-2
    .
  3. ^ Marinas, José Miguel, review of the book La ética de los griegos, magazine "El rapto de Europa", May 2, 2003.
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