The Speculative Philosopher

Books in this section (about dates)

1947: El sentido de la muerte

1952: El hombre en la encrucijada

1957: Man at the Crossroads

1962: El ser y la muerte: Bosquejo de filosofía integracionista

1965: Being and Death: An Outline of Integrationist Philosophy

1968: El ser y el sentido

1970: Las crisis humanas

1979: De la materia a la razón

1981: Ética aplicada: Del aborto a la violencia

1985: Fundamentos de filosofía

See also essays, especially

1977: “Fictions, Universals, and Abstract Entities”

In the Preface to the 1988 edition of El ser y la muerte, Ferrater Mora characterized this book-intext as the first in which he tried to present his own philosophical ideas. He notes that the first edition dates from 1962 which was, in turn, a re-elaboration of a book-intext that appeared in 1947 with the title El sentido de la muerte. In the same preface he mentions three other book-intexts containing his philosophical ideas: De la materia a la razón (published in 1979 and re-edited in 1983), El ser y el sentido (published in 1967) and “transformed” into Fundamentos de filosofía (published in 1985 and re-edited in 1987). It is in these book-intexts that he expresses his own philosophy, Integrationism, which he sometimes characterized as his “philosophical methodology.” He notes that his “practical” or “moral” ideas are expressed in Ética aplicada (published in 1981 and amplified in 1983). In answer to a question, however, concerning which of his book-intexts contain what is essential in his thought, Ferrater Mora answered: El ser y la muerte, De la materia a la razón, Fundamentos de filosofía, Las crisis humanas, Indagaciones sobre el lenguaje, and the long introduction to Ética aplicada. He added that some of his other works ought to be mentioned in so far as one's thought includes not only what is essential, but also what is “accidental.”