Rubén Islas He was born on December 31, 1959 in Mexico City. After 38 years as a jurist, politician, apprentice philosopher and university professor, he has collaborated in various specialized academic magazines and the media in Mexico, including Excelsior, Milenio Estado de México, La Afición, Radio Educación, Radio Formula, Radio Centro and Channel Once. He established himself as a critic and controversial essayist with the book Filosofía sin escrúpulos (La Cabra, 2021), a debut film that bears the title of his column in SDP Noticias. With his Amoral Primer, he confronts from an irreverent and libertarian vision one of the most controversial texts of the great Mexican essayist Alfonso Reyes, his Moral Primer. This essay that we publish is on the path of criticism of conservatism and the reigning neoconservatism in many spheres of Mexican society.