The work of the Professor Conill proposes a renewal of the philosophy against the naturalized scientism. He suggests a conception of the human being from the corporal intimacy, following the paths after Kant, of Nietzsche, Ortega and Zubiri.

Apart from the author, attended the presentation of the book Antonio Ariño, vice-principal for Culture and Sport; Diego Garcia, Emeritus Professor of Medicine History at the Complutense University of Madrid and the Foundation director Xavier Zubiri; and Adela Cortina, Emeritus Professor of Universitat de València and Foundation Étnor director. 

Jesús Conill is Professor of Moral and Policy Philosophy of the Universitat de València. In 1976, he was Professor of Philosophy at the INEM. He also studied and researched at the universities of München, Bonn, Frankfurt a. M. (Germany), St. Gallen (Switzerland) and Notre Dame (USA). He is also a member of the Board and technical advisor of Fundación Ética de los Negocios y de las Organizaciones (ÉTNOR) and co-director of the continued workshop “Ética económica y empresarial” from Étnor Foundation since 1994. He is founding member of European Business Ethics Network (EBEN) in Spain and member of the research seminar Xavier Zubiri, and member of the governing board of Real Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País Valencià.

He has written also: “El enigma del animal fantástico”, “El poder de la mentira”, “Nietzsche y la política de la transvaloración”, “Horizontes de economía ética I Ética hermenéutica”, all the work published in Tecnos publishing house.

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