Fernando Savater
Born 21 June 1947, Savater is one of Spain's most popular living philosophers, as well as an essayist and celebrated author. Born in 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 the Complutense 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 defines himself as an agnostic, an anglophile and a defender of the Enlightenment in the Voltaire tradition.
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La différence génétique qui nous sépare du chimpanzé est minime et celle qui nous sépare du porc et du ver n'est pas beaucoup plus grande. Alors qu'est-ce qui fait l'humain ? Selon Fernando Savater, ce ne sont ni les instincts ni notre patrimoine génétique, mais notre capacité à décider et à inventer des actions à même de transformer la réalité et de nous transformer.Cette prédisposition à c