Juan Manuel Burgos

Juan Manuel Burgos Velasco (born 1961, Valladolid) is a Spanish Personalist philosopher. He holds 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, Madrid , a member of the Jacques 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.

He is founder and president of Spain's Asociación Española de Personalismo, an institution dedicated to develop and promote personalism through publications and seminaries. The editor of Palabra Editorials, Madrid, Burgos has published books and articles on specialized magazines on diverse topics on Personalism, philosophical anthropology, bioethics, and sociology of the family.

Published works La inteligencia ética. La propuesta de Jacques Maritain, 1995. El personalismo. Autores y temas de una filosofía nueva, 2000, (2ª ed. 2003) . Antropología: una guía para la existencia, 2003 (2ª ed. 2005). Diagnóstico sobre la familia, 2004. Para comprender a Jacques Maritain. Un ensayo histórico-crítico, 2006. Hacia una definición de la filosofía personalista, (editor, en colaboración con José Luis Cañas y Urbano Ferrer), 2006. La filosofía personalista de Karol Wojtyła, (editor), 2007. Repensar la naturaleza humana, 2007. El vuelo del alción, (editor en colaboración con José Luis Cañas), 2009.