Juan Manuel Burgos

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).

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.

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 [1] (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 [2], AEP), an institution dedicated to develop and promote personalism through publications [3], seminaries [4] and international congresses on personalist thinkers such as Karol Wojtyła(2006 [5]) and Julián Marías (2008 [6]). The editor of two philosophy collections [7] (Palabra Editorials, Madrid Spain) has also published numerous books and articles on specialized magazines on diverse topics on Personalism, Philosophical Anthropology, Bioethics[8] and sociology of the family[9].