Ramon Valls (1928-2011): The agonist of «we» Authors Gonçal Mayos Philosophy Department, University of Barcelona Keywords: War, State, Hegel, Church, Class, Nation, I, Moralism Abstract 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 he’d 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.key wordsWar, State, Hegel, Church, Class, Nation, I, Moralism Downloads Download data is not yet available. Author Biography Gonçal Mayos, Philosophy Department, University of Barcelona Downloads PDF PDF (Català) How to Cite Mayos, G. (2014). Ramon Valls (1928-2011): The agonist of «we». Journal of Catalan Intellectual History, (7&8), 85–107. Retrieved from https://revistes.iec.cat/index.php/JOCIH/article/view/133235 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Issue No. 7&8 (2014) Section Articles License Aquesta obra és subjecta —llevat que s'indiqui el contrari en el text, en les fotografies o en altres il·lustracions— a una llicència Reconeixement - No comercial - Sense obres derivades 3.0 Espanya de Creative Commons, el text complet de la qual es pot consultar a http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.ca. Així, doncs, s'autoritza al públic en general a reproduir, distribuir i comunicar l'obra sempre que se'n reconegui l'autoria i l'entitat que la publica i no se'n faci un ús comercial ni cap obra derivada.