Barcelona, Ariel, 1992, 318 pp.
Approach to Ethics

Moral action: The subject of ethics.- Moral action.- Moral conscience.- Moral choice as a principle.- Moral reasoning: Individual grounds.- Moral personality.- Moral reasoning.- Rational and reasonable.- Moral judgment: Practical reason.- The structure of moral judgment.- Moral skepticism.- The naturalistic fallacy.- Moral obligation: Conflicts between desire and duty.- Moral obligation.- Moral rules.- The categorical imperative.- Moral goodness: Autonomy and heteronomy.- Moral goodness.- Goodness after the autonomous perspective.- Ethical relativism.

 
 
 

Barcelona, PPU, 1990, 148 pp.
The Ethical Discourse. Historic and Linguistic features of Ethics

History into the moral discourse.- From morality to social ethics.- Morality as ideology.- The quest of moral progress.- Linguistic shapes of morality.- Moral shapes of language.- The prescriptive moral discourse.- Morality in a world of speech and action.- Is ethical society an utopia?



 
 
 

Barcelona, Edicions 62, 1990, 111 pp.
The labyrinth of liberty

Moral choice as principle.- The labyrinth of liberty.- From determinism to libertarianism.- Morality as self determination.- Free choice and engagement.- A discussion on responsibility.


 
 
 

Barcelona, Barcanova, 1991, 142 pp.
Ethics and Justice

A current debate: nihilism, amorality, relativism.- The historic framework of virtues.- Discussion about the classical concept of virtue.- Justice as moral virtue.- The eudemonistic idea of justice.- The procedural idea of justice.- Justice and solidarity.


 

 

 
 

Badalona, Llibres de l´Index, 1991, 81 pp.
Machiavelli´s shadow. Ethics and Politics

Foreword by Joan Fuster.- The debate between ethics and politics.- The portrait of an ethical politician.- Why ethical politics?


 

 

 
 

Madrid, Tecnos, 1990, 162 pp.
Human Dignity. A study on values in a short value age

Foreword by José-Luis L. Aranguren.- The fall of Marxism and its effect on ethics.- Is there moral progress in humanity?: A set of interpretations.- Searching a principle.- Progress according to Kant.- A critical assumption of moral progress.- The ethical analysis of values: The problem of values: ethics or religion?.- “Cross valuation of all values”.- Inside Ethics of Values.- Human dignity as an overriding value.- Agnes Heller and her Kant´s “second Ethics”.


 
 
 

Barcelona, Gedisa, 1994, 166 pp.
Kant and the tribunal of moral conscience

Foreword by José-Luis L. Aranguren.- The transcendental consciousness.- The oneself conscience.- The common ethical conscience.- Moral egalitarianism.- The concept of “good will”.- Transition to transcendental ethical conscience.- Morality as a “fact of reason”.- The self constitution of individual.- Conscience as conscientia practica (1788).- Conscientia iudex in criticism of religion (1793).- Conscientia iudex in criticism of virtue (1797).- The “inner tribunal” of moral conscience.- “Remorse” and “self contentment”.- The basic moral “assent”.- Duty for “truthfulness” and “conscientious decision”.- Moral conscience and the assumption of God existence.- The ethics of “attitude” and the inner change.- The goal of moral conscience.- Stoic and Lutheran traces on Kantian Gewissen.- The critical sense of moral conscience.- Interpretation of results.- The restoration of moral thinking.

 
 
 

Barcelona, Anagrama, 1993, 163 pp.
The moral idiot. Banality of evil in 20 th century


The mortal sin in 20 th century.- A new exterminator angel.- Bluebeard´s shadow.- Moral apathy.- The lack of thought.- The banality of evil.- The moral idiot face to courts.- Ethics in hell.- The banal world.
This book became finalist of the 1993 Anagrama Prize of essay.


 
 
 

Barcelona, Anagrama, 1997, 204 pp.
A revolution into Ethics. Habits and beliefs in the digital society

The mind of digital society.- A mutation in human senses.- Consequences on ethics.- Informational culture and evaluative culture.- The so called “crisis of values”.- Replacement of habits and beliefs.- The revolution of ethems.- The necessity for habits and beliefs.- Habits and beliefs linked to senses.- The customary displacement of sensitivity.- The contempt of senses.- The five senses throughout moral interaction.- Touch and morality.- The human hand as cultural symbol.- Gaze and morality.- Human eye as cultural symbol.- The work of senses.- Psychophysiology of touch and human conduct.- Psychology of gaze and human conduct.- Touch and gaze in non-human conduct.- Evolutionary patterns in human interaction.- The evolutionary features of ethics.- Towards an ethics of moral common minimum.- Cognitive ethics and sensitivity.- The recovery of touch and gaze.
This book won the XXVAnagrama Prize of essay in 1997.

 
 
 

Barcelona, Península, 2003, 237 pp.
Ethics for living. Reasons and passions

The passage of time.- Sex is the subject.- The network of emotions.- The world of memory.- The worlds of imagination.- Advantages of willingness.- Making oneself somebody.- Unconscious and reason.- Love and coldness.- Friends of all gender.- Illusion and disillusion.- Fear of freedom.- Good and evil.- The guilt.- The coming of pain.- The weight of solitude.- The proximity of death.- The indispensable happiness.- Experience of life.- A life is a life.


 
 
 

Badalona, Ara Llibres, 2005, 154 pp.
Letter for a humanities student

Our choice.- The issue of humanities.- A history in short.- Idea and classification of humanities.- The limits of specialization.- Memory.- Reflection.- To pay attention.- Understanding.- Judgment as responsibility.- Imagination.- The interpreting task.-
The narrative skills.- The best books.- Reading and writing.- Listening and speaking.- The plurality of viewpoints.- A philosophical mind.- Science and humanities.- To what are humanities good?.- Learning to choose.- A letter by Petrarch.- Professional issues.- Tetralogy.

 
 

Barcelona, Cruïlla, 2000, 268 pp.
Milestones of ethics

Edited by Norbert Bilbeny. His chapters focuses: Ethics of suspicion: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud.- Existentialist ethics: Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Sartre.


 
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