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Fernando Savater
Fernando Savater is philosophers,essayist and author.
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21 June 2024

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Fernando Savater21.6.1947

Wikipedia (13 Jun 2013, 12:31)
Fernando Fernández-Savater Martín (born 21 June 1947) is one of Spain's most popular living philosophers, as well as an essayist and celebrated author.

Born at San Sebastián, he was an Ethics professor at the University of the Basque Country for over a decade. Presently he is a Philosophy professor at theComplutense University of Madrid. He has won several accolades for his literary work, which covers issues as diverse as contemporary ethics, politics, cinema and literary studies. In 1990, Savater and columnist and publisher, Javier Pradera, founded the magazine, Claves de Razón Práctica.

He has taken an active part in several organizations engaged with peace in the Basque Country and against terrorism and Basque nationalism, such asMovimiento por la Paz y la No ViolenciaGesto por la PazForo Ermua, and currently ¡Basta Ya!.

He defines himself as an agnostic, an anglophile and a defender of the Enlightenment in the Voltaire tradition.

In November of 2012 he was awarded the prestigious Octavio Paz Prize of Poetry and Essay.



   
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