Aurelio Arteta is Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country. Author of ethical essays, including Compassion. Apology suspect a virtue (1996) and Virtue in his eyes. Essay on moral admiration (2002). Editor and co-author of university textbooks as Political Theory: power, morality, democracy (2003) and Knowledge of the citizen. Capitals notions of democracy (2008). His last work was Mal consent. The complicity of the indifferent spectator (2010).