Professor of Ethics at the University of Barcelona (Spain)
Born in Barcelona in 1953. Author of many books about moral and political philosophy.
He is also an abstract painter

In the debate around multiculturalism, Bilbeny defends a philosophical scope involving an intercultural ethics. Thus he rejects both monoculturalism and differentialist multiculturalism as frameworks for ethics.

Dialog and cooperation among citizens and between cultures should be possible basically on the grounds of universal cognitive and emotional patterns of human mind and behavior. Therefore, a common minimal morality, more necessary than ever in our stressed world, could grow out of shared human dispositions. Those which is our ethical duty to educate and transform into moral common values.

*See a critical introduction to his work in “The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism” (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U.P., 2005)