Ricardo Maliandi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ricardo Maliandi

Argentine philosopher

Date of Birth: 10-Jan-1930

Place of Birth: La Plata, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Date of Death: 12-Feb-2015

Profession: writer, philosopher

Nationality: Argentina

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Ricardo Guillermo Maliandi (born in La Plata, 1930, died 12 February 2015) Argentine writer and philosopher, devoted to ethics. He was professor in many Argentine universities and researcher in CONICET.
Doctor in Philosophy for Mainz University, Germany.
He received Konex Prize in 1986 for his labor on ethics. As well he is chairman of Argentine Association of Ethical Researches, fellow of National Academy of Sciences and honorary member of Argentine Association of Bioethics. His researches started on axiology, especially the works of Nicolai Hartmann, from who he has translated many books.
Afterward he made an approach to Discourse Ethics and became friend of one of his founders, Karl-Otto Apel.
From many years he works in an original propose which he call "ethics of convergence".