The academic community of the University of Navarra will take time to assimilate the death of professor and friend Ángel Luis González, who trained several generations of professors and students, and dedicated a good part of his life to tasks of government and service at the university. As the son of a former Full Professor and President of the Complutense University, he carried the university embedded in his DNA and had a high sense of its mission statement. He had assimilated the university spirit of outstanding teachers who, like Leonardo Polo, understood that the university is a business that seeks higher knowledge. Following Polo's thinking, he thought that the professor should dedicate himself fundamentally to increasing this knowledge, seeking to know more each time, to read his colleagues, to publish.

He had a broad, magnanimous and hopeful vision of the university, although he also saw its threats. He believed that a university should not be satisfied with its professors giving class and publishing a little something. The good university has great and ambitious projects in its portfolio, like the many that he himself promoted. He was serious, kind and demanding, a gentleman in his attention. He clearly implied that the university should promote the excellence staff and professional at all levels, fleeing from mediocrity, routine and complacency.

From the professors, who bear the greatest responsibility, to the students and the staff no professor, everyone should be aware that the university is a large and ambitious business of training.

That horizon financial aid to understand his indefatigable work. From the outside it is difficult to understand how he managed to write and promote research on Thomas Aquinas, Nicholas of Cusa, Spinoza and Leibniz, in individual and collective works over 40 years in which he had numerous government responsibilities. To these projects he added in recent years the direction of the line of classical and Renaissance Spanish thought, the philosophical collection of Eunsa, the direction of the journal "Studia Poliana" and the edition of the complete works of Leonardo Polo. 

Although all this is a remarkable work, the surprising thing is that he did not give the impression of carrying so much stuff with him, as he was always ready to engage in friendly conversation, listen and prudently advise colleagues and students.

Perhaps that is why his memory will last for many years. thesis With more than 70 doctoral dissertations directed, he left many disciples in Spain and Latin America who should take up the invitation, which he often launched, to focus on what is truly important: the task of thinking and reflecting on the perennial problems of the Philosophy without being distracted by other flares. To work, to help others to grow humanly, to serve the university: that was his passion.