Esperanza Guisán (23 April 1940 – 27 November 2015) was a Spanish

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. She was a professor at the

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. Her work was devoted mainly to classical

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theory. A list of many of her works appears at her Google Scholar Web page, including treatises on ethics, democracy, ethics without religion, and Kant.

Writings

;In Spanish *'Los presupuestos de la falacia naturalista', 1981. *'Cómo ser un buen empirista en ética', 1985. *'', 1986. *'Esplendor y miseria de la ética kantiana', 1988. *'Manifiesto hedonista', 1990. *'La ética mira a la izquierda', 1992. *'Ética sin religión', 1993. *'Introducción a la ética', 1995. *'Más allá de la democracia', 2000. *'Una ética de libertad y solidaridad: John Stuart Mill', 2008. ;In English *Taking Ethics Seriously: on the Moral and Political Theory of John Stuart Mill Esperanza Guisán Telos: Revista iberoamericana de estudios utilitaristas, ISSN 1132-0877, ISSN-e 2255-596X, Vol. 14, Nº. 1, 2005, págs. 11-24 *Is Griffin a millian utilitarian after all? Esperanza Guisán Telos: Revista iberoamericana de estudios utilitaristas, ISSN 1132-0877, ISSN-e 2255-596X, Vol. 10, Nº. 1, 2001 (Special Issue on: Understanding Griffin), págs. 9-12

References

External links

* Tribute to Guisán, Esperanza. http://mariadario.blog/2015/11/13/saudades-sempre-esperanza-besos-a-ti-mi-maestra/ * 'Un Relato Personal', an article in 'Télos' Magazine/S.I.E.U./Sociedad Iberoamericana de Estudios Utilitaristas/U.S.C. http://www.usc.es/revistas/index.php/telos/article/view/742/723 * 'Mujeres y Pensamiento en la España Actual' I. http://pendientedemigracion.ucm.es/BUCM/fsl/54718.php * 'Mujeres y Pensamiento en la España Actual' II. http://pendientedemigracion.ucm.es/BUCM/fsl/54725.php * Interview to 'Filosofía Hoy'. http://mariadario.blog/2015/11/12/etica-a-revista-%C2%A8filosofia-hoy%C2%A8-faz-uma-entrevista-a-esperanza-guisan-universidade-de-santiago-de-compostela/
Guisan's writings on her website at Dialnet
1940 births 2015 deaths Spanish philosophers Utilitarians Spanish women philosophers Political philosophers Hedonism {{spain-philosopher-stub