Jose Ferrater Mora

Jose Maria Ferrater Mora, who lived from October 30, 1912 to January 30, 1991, was a Spanish philosopher, essayist and writer considered the most prominent Catalan philosopher of the twentieth century. Author of more than thirty five books, including the four volume Diccionario de Filosofia, or Dictionary of Philosophy, published in 1941, and Being and Death: An Outline of Integrationist Philosophy in 1962, he worked across ontology, the history of philosophy, metaphysics, anthropology, the philosophy of history and culture, epistemology, logic, philosophy of science and ethics. He was known in particular for including humans and non-human animals within the same moral sphere, arguing that the difference between them was one of degree rather than kind, and he also directed several films.