24 Facts About Antonio Escohotado

Antonio Escohotado Espinosa, commonly called Antonio Escohotado, was a Spanish philosopher, jurist, essayist and university professor.

Antonio Escohotado's thought fits into the framework of libertarian liberalism.

Antonio Escohotado has maintained numerous controversies in the media for his opinions on sensitive issues for morals, such as drug use, prostitution or euthanasia.

Antonio Escohotado served until his retirement in 2013 as professor of Philosophy and Methodology of Social Sciences at the Faculty of Political Sciences and Sociology of the UNED.

The sixth of his sons, Roman, father of Antonio Escohotado, began by voting for the socialist Julian Besteiro and ended up signing the Manifesto of the Spanish Falanx.

Antonio Escohotado was head of Dionisio Ridruejo's secretariat during his time as director general of Propaganda, directed Radio Nacional from 1941, won the main journalistic awards and was press attache in Brazil from 1946 to 1956.

Antonio Escohotado spoke about his interest in knowledge at this time:.

Antonio Escohotado found his vocation for knowledge as an early bloomer and it led him to begin a career in philosophy.

Antonio Escohotado then began to publish, in addition to giving practical classes or seminars in the faculties of Politics and Philosophy, where he developed a relationship with colleagues such as Carlos Moya, Eugenio Trias Sagnier and Felipe Martinez Marzoa, and discovered somewhat younger authors such as Savater, Azua and Echeverria.

Thanks to a leave of absence from his civil service that was not to last more than two years, Antonio Escohotado set out in 1970 to experience a life without luxury, sustained by the income obtained through translations, and dispensing with conventional habits.

Antonio Escohotado has continued to draw attention to the legal status of euthanasia, and even more to the crime of assisting the suicide as pending issues.

Betting, in his own words, on "the pharmacological enlightenment, which presents this field as one more object of knowledge, where the quintessence of danger is concentrated in ignorance", Antonio Escohotado composed a chronicle aimed at meticulously documenting the matter:.

Antonio Escohotado pays special attention to terrorism as a feedback loop, in which the interests of the terrorist and the anti-terrorist always coincide, and contrasts this vicious circle with the premises of an alternative virtuous circle, analyzing the population parameters from which a group could claim the right to self-determination, such as, for example, the Basque Country.

Antonio Escohotado brings together here a series of texts that together outline a contemporary theory of health, considering that our nature inevitably fuses being and thought.

Antonio Escohotado returned to research in the strong sense of the term with Chaos and Order, when he discovered that Mandelbrot's fractal geometry was an alternative to Euclid's idealization, and Prigogine's dissipative structures a restatement of the second principle of thermodynamics.

Antonio Escohotado proved in passing that these were not isolated feats, but part of a general scientific renaissance, which "transcends the reductionist paradigm with progress in the ability to grasp the complex".

Antonio Escohotado compares modalities of open and closed orders, some fed by the environment, such as the thermostat, and others isolated from it, such as the clock, ironizing about the confusion between the two, as if the "order" of the barracks and the convent could be considered synonymous with the real.

Antonio Escohotado replied, among other things, that he had been denouncing the fraud of French postmodernism for many years and answered each of the criticisms in detail.

Antonio Escohotado then joked about his destiny to meticulously document one or another variant of fear:.

The last five years of the thinker's life was marked by a close professional collaboration with his third son, Antonio Jorge Escohotado Alvarez de Lorenzana who is a journalist and entrepreneur.

Antonio Escohotado was father to a total of six children.

Antonio Escohotado was quite active in the media as he continued to give interviews and collaborated in some YouTube streaming program.

Antonio Escohotado Espinosa died in the early hours of November 21,2021 at the age of 80 as a result of multiorgan failure at the Policlinica de Nuestra Senora del Rosario in Ibiza surrounded by his loved ones.

Antonio Escohotado's mortal remains rest in the civil cemetery of the secluded village of Santa Ines de Corona.