José Ortega y Gasset
José Ortega y Gasset | |
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Ortega y Gasset in 1948 | |
| Born | 9 May 1883 |
| Died | 18 October 1955 (aged 72) Madrid, Spain |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | University of Deusto Complutense University of Madrid |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy Perspectivism Pragmatism Vitalism Historism Existentialism Existential phenomenology Lebensphilosophie (philosophy of life) Neo-Kantianism (early) Madrid School Liberalism Noucentisme |
| Institutions | Complutense University of Madrid |
| Main interests | History, reason, politics |
| Notable ideas | Vital reason (ratiovitalism) Historical reason "I am I and my circumstance" Ortega hypothesis |
José Ortega y Gasset (/ɔːrˈteɪɡə/; Spanish: [xoˈse oɾˈteɣaj ɣaˈset]; 9 May 1883 – 18 October 1955) was a Spanish philosopher and essayist. He worked during the first half of the 20th century while Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism and dictatorship. His philosophy has been characterized as a "philosophy of life" that "comprised a long-hidden beginning in a pragmatist metaphysics inspired by William James and with a general method from a realist phenomenology imitating Edmund Husserl, which served both his proto-existentialism (prior to Martin Heidegger's) and his realist historicism, which has been compared to both Wilhelm Dilthey and Benedetto Croce."