The born creator of universes. Anthropology and existential aesthetics in José Ortega y Gasset

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.63487/reo.163

Keywords:

Ortega y Gasset, Anthropology, Circumstance, Monster, Indetermination, Project, Art

Abstract

The definition of man is for Ortega the most profound philosophical problem. It is then necessary to ask ourselves what mankind really is. Man is a wolf to man and is, at the same time, a son of God, an Adamic and paradisiacal being, heir to the original sin. Man is possibly the most ill-adapted being to his environment and, consequently, the one who has been forced to transform it until he has practically generated it again from scratch. Man is technique; man is a task always to be done. But man is, above all, life, project, creation of an “I” that stands at the center of a circumstance that belongs to him, that conforms him, that makes him that he himself is.

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Author Biography

Sara Jácome, Universidad de Salamanca

She is a research fellow at the University of Salamanca and a PhD candidate in philosophy at the same university. Her research interests include Ortega y Gasset, María Luisa Caturla, art, women, and history. Her publications include “Pictorial art and cinematographic art as tools for capturing reality in El sol del membrillo (1992) by Víctor Erice,” Proceedings of the Congress on History, Literature, and Art in Spanish and Portuguese Cinema with the paper. Center for Brazilian Studies, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, 2019; “Stories where there are only men. María Luisa Caturla and José Ortega y Gasset,” Lecturas de nuestro tiempo (ISSN: 2530-9439). Association Lecturas de nuestro tiempo, Madrid, 2019, or “The literary, philosophical, and human relationship between Victoria Ocampo and Ortega y Gasset,” in La filosofía y el amor, Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, 2019 (in press).

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Published

2020-11-01 — Updated on 2020-11-01

How to Cite

Jácome, S. (2020). The born creator of universes. Anthropology and existential aesthetics in José Ortega y Gasset. Revista De Estudios Orteguianos, (41), 51–60. https://doi.org/10.63487/reo.163

Issue

No. 41 (2020)

Section

Ponencias