Works presented

Summary
Although significant progress has been made in recent decades regarding animal ethics, the issue remains unresolved, and there is no indication that it will be settled in the near future. Philosophers who advocate for animal rights defend sentience as the sole requirement to be considered a subject of moral consideration. Sentience is the capacity of certain living beings to have experiences, feel emotions, and perceive their surroundings in a subjective manner. In this paper, I will defend the idea of sentience as a criterion for moral consideration. To do so, I will first provide a detailed explanation of this term; in the following section, I will address the issue of suffering and why human suffering is not more significant than that of non-human animals; and finally, I will present the type of discrimination that perpetuates the idea that certain species deserve more moral consideration than others speciesism and, more specifically, the belief that humans are superior to all other species, anthropocentric speciesism.

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HORTA ALVAREZ, Óscar (Tutorships)

Court
GARCIA SOTO, LUIS MODESTO (Chairman)
FRANCO BARRERA, ALBERTO JOSE (Secretary)
MARTINEZ VIDAL, MARIA DE LA CONCEPCION (Member)

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This essay is based on the thesis that love is the central element in Spinoza’s Ethics. It is analyzed how seek for happiness is inseparable from investigating which is the perfect love object and the way this process starts in affectivity and how the individual discovers from their singularity, through reason, the community of every being and finds its perfection on the amor Dei intellectualis. Furthermore, it is argued that his ontology, epistemology and ethics reach their true sense only on their relation with love.

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VAZQUEZ LOBEIRAS, MARIA XESUS (Tutorships)

Court
CONDE SOTO, FRANCISCO (Chairman)
RABE , ANA MARIA DE LA CONCEPCION (Secretary)
ALLEN-PERKINS AVENDAÑO, DIEGO (Member)

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Byung-Chul Han is one of the most famous philosophers of the beginning of the 21st century, a living and still active author of deep originality and contemporaneity. His philosophy mainly focuses on the analysis of the individual and society in the context of society in today's capitalism. In this essay, Byung-Chul Han's thinking will be examined, seeing if his concepts and analyzes show and extend Karl Marx's concerns about exploitation and alienation in the neoliberal era. Byung-Chul Han, through his exploration of psychopolitics, the society of weariness and self-exploitation, offers a comprehensive view of the new modalities of control and domination that characterize 21st century capitalism. Thus, while for his part Marx focused on class exploitation and the alienation of the worker, Han highlights the way neoliberal capitalism assumes these mechanisms, transforming individuals into self-exploiters as an illusion of individual freedom. Analyzing the evolution of power from the most disciplinary techniques towards psychological and emotional manipulation, we will see with this essay whether Han's critique complements and modernizes the Marxist proposal and whether this critique of contemporary capitalism can be understood as Marxist or not.

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POSE VARELA, CARLOS ALBERTO (Tutorships)

Court
CONDE SOTO, FRANCISCO (Chairman)
RABE , ANA MARIA DE LA CONCEPCION (Secretary)
ALLEN-PERKINS AVENDAÑO, DIEGO (Member)

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This work is the result of reading and studying the book The Ring of the Dove by Ibn Hazm. Firstly, it will review the philosophical and historical circumstances that led to the birth of Western Arab philosophy and the particularities of a differentiated branch of it, Andalusian philosophy. Subsequently, it will point out the phenomena surrounding the complex figure of the Cordoban author, which will shed light on the significance of this specific work of his. Next, the particularities of Udhri love will be explained, along with the effects of its transmission in al-Andalus and its literary culmination through the writing that concerns us here. Finally, the methodology followed by Ibn Hazm to achieve his main aim - explaining the very essence of love - will be highlighted and explained.

Direction
AGIS VILLAVERDE, MARCELINO (Tutorships)

Court
VAZQUEZ LOBEIRAS, MARIA XESUS (Chairman)
ALCALA RODRIGUEZ, FRANCISCO JAVIER (Secretary)
BARCIA GONZALEZ, FRANCISCO JAVIER (Member)