Ramon Valls (1928-2011): The agonist of "we"

Like the rest of his generation, Valls was marked by the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist repression. Therefore he viewed humanity from realpolitik, pessimistic and agonistic; he searched to give a philosophical base to an we which would end the struggle of one against another. We analyze his attacks on we built on class, culture or nationality, civil society o the I individual, emotivism or moralism, which are impotent and feed the natural human agonism. Instead, Valls first thought hed found the we in the church, but then changed radically and only trusted the Hegelian version of the state. In this article we take a balance of the work and teaching of the recently departed professor.