Sunday, May 4, 2025, 05:00
In the year 2026 The fifth centenary of the creation of the Salamanca school is celebrated. To commemorate this event, the University of Salamanca has created the Tatiana-Salamanca Foundation Chair with the support of the Tatiana Foundation of Madrid. The director of this new chair, María Martín Gómez, explains that the initiative was born as a result of collaboration between both institutionsand is part of a broader project that seeks to recover the intellectual legacy of the Salamanca School. “I want to show my thanks to the Tatian Foundation for its support for this project,” he says.
The official presentation of the chair will take place on May 23where the complete programming of planned activities will be announced. As a preamble of these celebrations, A conference cycle has already been launched under the title “doing Salamanca School”which seeks to connect historical issues with contemporary debates. “The Salamanca school dealt with issues of enormous news, such as sovereignty and power, economic morals, justice, war, or political philosophy,” says Martín Gómez.
The renowned Harvard philosopher and professor Michael Sandel will open this conference cycle on May 6 at 7:00 p.m. at the University of Salamanca’s Paraninfo. Access will be free, although the capacity is limited and requires prior reserve through the email of the director of the chair: [email protected]. It should be noted that the conference will take place in English.
Asturias Prince Award
Michael Sandel, Princess Award for Social Sciences in 2018has managed to bring philosophy beyond the classroom and has encouraged ethical debate on current social, economic and political debate.
Among his most influential works are justice: do we do what we owe?, Where he raises everyday moral dilemmas to explore the principles of justice; What money cannot buy, a criticism of the commercialization of social life; and the tyranny of merit, where he questions the idea of meritocracy as the basis of success. They also highlight liberalism and the limits of justice and against perfection, where it analyzes the ethical limits of biotechnology. His works have been translated into more than 20 languages and are obliged reference in the global public debate.
«Sandel is one of the most authorized voices currently on political, ethical and moral philosophy. He has always positioned himself in defense of justice and has dared to give his opinion on current problems such as euthanasia, dissent or genetic and bioethical problems, ”says the director of the chair.
Although the chair has already developed some previous activities in 2024 and in the first months of 2025, this event is, in the words of Martín Gómez, “a good starting gun” for what will be an intense academic and cultural agenda until 2026.
