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Research lines:
  • Personalism and Cosmopolitanism.During the 20th century, communitarian personalism, a philosophical horizon and a movement for action, has made a valuable contribution to the development of this tradition of humanism and to the process of building European political unity in recognition of diversity and respect for human rights.
  • Human rights and techno-power.The main challenge of law is the defence of the human being against the uncontrolled power of technology in various fields: ecology vs. anthropocene; finance vs. speculation and tax fraud; bio-law vs. transhumanism; the right to privacy and non-manipulation vs. GAF (Google, Amazon and Facebook).
  • Equality, gender and non-discrimination.Study of the current situation of women's rights from a gender perspective: formal and material equality in the exercise of rights; integration of equality with difference; analysis of the joint responsibility model; debates around gender identity.
  • Political Philosophy: Justice, Democracy and Participation.This line of research will focus primarily on contemporary challenges to the liberal democratic model, analysing essential values such as justice, freedom, human rights and addressing issues such as political participation and contemporary theories of justice.
  • Philosophy of Peace and International Relations.Analysis of the major challenges facing international relations: failed states, new wars, asymmetrical wars, serious and systematic violations of human rights, refugee crises; and the positive concept of peace, which is not merely the absence of war, but includes justice and respect for human rights.
  • Human security and planetary sustainability in the post-global era.UN concept to displace the concept of national security, which affects quality of life and not weapons potential, and GDP, which focuses on increasing computable operations. Its sustainability depends on subordinating finance to the real economy and this to human capabilities.