![]() ![]() Ortega's philosophy consequently discloses affinities in its metaphysics to both American pragmatism and European existentialism in spite of its elitism in social philosophy. Reason becomes the tool of people existing biologically in a given time and place, rather than an overarching sovereign. ![]() He subordinated reason to life, to vitality. While Rene Descartes declared "Cogito ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am), Ortega maintained "Cogito quia vivo" (I think because I live). Ortega's reformulation of the Cartesian cogito displays the fulcrum of his thought. Skip to main content Save 20 Limited-Time Offer. We have new and used copies available, in 0 edition - starting at 3.12. by José Ortega y Gasset online at Alibris. He returned to Spain in 1945 and died in Madrid. Buy The dehumanization of art, and other writings on art and culture. Instead, he chose the life of a voluntary exile in Argentina, and in 1941 he was appointed professor of philosophy at the University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru. Although Franco, after his victory in the civil war, offered to make Ortega Spain's "official philosopher" and to publish a deluxe edition of his works, with certain parts deleted, the philosopher refused. Ortega's predominant thesis is the need of an intellectual aristocracy governing in a spirit of enlightened liberalism. The Revolt of the Masses, his most famous work, owes much to post-Kantian schools of thought. Essayist and philosopher, a thinker influential in and out of the Spanish world, Jose Ortega y Gasset was professor of metaphysics at the University of Madrid from 1910 until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. ![]()
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