Juan Manuel Burgos

Juan Manuel Burgos Velasco (born 1961, Valladolid, Spain) is a Spanish Personalist philosopher. He has a PhD. in Physics, (Barcelona, 1988) and a PhD. in Philosophy (Rome, 1992). He is Professor at the University San Pablo CEU (Madrid), and at the John Paul II Institute (Madrid), member of the Jaques Maritain International Institute, and distinguished guest Professor at Galileo University (2007, Guatemala). In 2007, he became an honorary Professor at the Institute of Family Sciences (Guatemala) for his contribution to family sciences through his anthropology studies. From his active dedication to the investigation and diffusion of Personalist philosophy, Burgos has been a guest professor at Universities in Rome, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Guatemala and Colombia. He is founder and actual President of the Spanish Association of Personalism (Asociación Española de Personalismo , AEP), an institution dedicated to develop and promote personalism through publications , seminaries and international congresses on personalist thinkers such as Karol Wojtyla(2006 ) and Julian Marias (2008 ). The editor of two philosophy collections (Palabra Editorials, Madrid Spain) has also published numerous books and articles on specialized magazines on diverse topics on Personalism, Philosophical Anthropology, Bioethics and sociology of the family.

Thought

Burgos's philosophy, takes off from the originality and intellectual weight of Personalism with names like Maritain, Emmanuel Mounier, Wojtyla, Dietrich von Hildebrand, Scheler, Marias, Guardini, Nedoncelle, Gabriel Marcel, etc. His investigation focuses on three main subjects:

The result of his synthesis labor is presented in two major phases:
In the first one, he states the elements that place personalism within the Realistic Classical philosophy. In his analysis, this standing point supposes six basic principles:

In the second phase, Burgos has identified the key elements that define and distinguish Personalism as an original and new philosophy within this tradition. Those key elements are:

With these premises as foundation, Burgos has developed a personalist anthropology (Antropología: una gíia para la existencia, 2003) that incorporates the latter characteristics developing and integrating them organically on a fundamental anthropological concept: the one of person. According to Burgos, this is the main aspect by which Personalism distinguishes from other Classical anthropologies because those take their fundamental element in the concept of substance or of nature.

Now, Burgos is working in developing and his studies have become deeper on main elements in personalism as: the personalist method and analogy, the relationship of personalism and metaphysics, praxis (Reconstruir la persona, 2009) or on human nature (Repensar la naturaleza humana, 2007).

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