Francesc Torralba Roselló

Director of the ETHOS Chair of Applied Ethics at the URL

Professor of ethics at the URL

• PhD in Health Sciences from the International University of Catalonia (2026).

• Doctor Honoris Causa from the Autonomous Juárez University of Tabasco, Mexico (2025).

• PhD in History, Archeology and Christian Arts, Sant Pacià University Ateneo, Antoni Gaudí Faculty (2022).

• PhD in Pedagogy from Ramon Llull University (2018).

• PhD of Theology by the Faculty of Theology of Catalonia (1997).

• PhD of Philosophy from the University of Barcelona (1992).

Academic training

Philosopher, University of Barcelona (1990)

Theologian, Faculty of Theology of Catalonia (1993)

Teaching activity

Part-time professor, FFLS

Professor at URL, Faculties of Psychology, Communication Sciences, and Pharmacy

Research and transfer activity

His thought is oriented towards philosophical anthropology and ethics. Framed within contemporary personalism, in his work he proposes an analysis of the central questions of human existence (suffering, silence, death, God, meaning, freedom) from a philosophical perspective that tries to integrate the richness of the Judeo-Christian heritage and modern and contemporary philosophical currents.

A specialist in Søren Kierkegaard (who has translated from Danish to Catalan), he has a deep knowledge of the thought of the thinkers of suspicion (Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx), the theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, Edith Stein, the psychologist Rollo May and the Façade of Glory of the Sagrada Família by Antoni Gaudí.

He is the author of more than 120 books and more than 2,000 articles.

https:/francesctorralba.com

Awards

Ratzinger Award 2023

Josep Pla Award 2026