Agustín Domingo Moratalla

Agustín Domingo Moratalla is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Sciences, University of Valencia. He is also a faculty member and director at the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP), indicating a broad academic presence across institutions. His primary research affiliation is with the ETIDEMO Applied Ethics and Democracy Research Group.

His research centers on moral philosophy, with a strong focus on hermeneutics, ethics of dialogue, and responsibility, drawing extensively from the works of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jan Patočka. His interests span applied ethics, political ethics, bioethics, ethics of care, intergenerational responsibility, and the role of religious values in public education and citizenship. He has made significant contributions to the ethics of donation and deliberation in business and local governance.

His scholarly output from 1990 to 2013 reflects a sustained engagement with ethical theory in pluralistic democratic societies, particularly in journals such as Veritas, Polibea, and Persona. Themes across his publications include memory and identity, solidarity, public reason, and the ethical transformation of institutions.

He earned his doctorate from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid with a thesis on Gadamer’s hermeneutics, supervised by Dr. J. Navarro.

He actively contributes to academic discourse through publications and institutional leadership, particularly in ethics and democratic theory. While no formal list of students or grants is provided, his supervisory role is implied through his academic rank and research group leadership.

He is affiliated with the ETIDEMO Research Group, which focuses on applied ethics and democratic innovation, suggesting collaborative research in contemporary ethical challenges.