Pathos, Ethos, Logos (In Tribute to Antonio Rodríguez Huéscar)

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.63487/reo.449

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José Ortega y Gasset, Antonio Rodríguez Huéscar, feeling of penury, facticity and perplexity, will as constitutive selfdetermination, metaphisic of indigence and contingenty vital reason as onto-praxeologic

Abstract

The present essay aims to analyse the pato-eto-logical structure of life, in the J. Ortega y Gasset’s philosophy, as a circular relation of mutuality, from the ontological constitution of indigence. Only the indigente being feels his dearth, tries to be in his penury and needs to think in relation with an outside, which is opened to in a constitutive manner. This pato-eto-logical unity of human being is the orteguian critical reply to the subsistent being of the classic ontology developed from Aristotle to Leibniz. The phenomenological access to this structural unity is made through that existential radical crisis of beliefs, in which philosophy breaks out. Living is certainly a translucent act, it is to live, to realize, but this act does not imply a subsistens self-consciouness, as Descartes believed, it means to became aware, not in an objective manner but in a executive one, that embraces and implies the three dimensions. To realize is at the same time a feeling of bein thrown in the circunstance (ogirinal feeling of facticity, perplexity), it is an active resolution of being (a practical autodeterminacion of will), and it is to became aware of the options oponed to my own project of being (original thought as construction of world).

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Author Biography

Pedro Cerezo Galán, Universidad de Granada

A professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Granada and a member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, he is one of the leading scholars of the thought of José Ortega y Gasset. His work *La voluntad de aventura* (1984) marked a milestone in the interpretation of Ortega’s philosophy and opened up or deepened research into new sources such as phenomenology, Nietzsche, Fichte, and various Spanish authors, both literary and philosophical. Some of his articles and book chapters dedicated to Ortega—which would be too numerous to list here—are also key to the political interpretation of the philosopher and his role as an intellectual in the public sphere. Cerezo has also worked on other authors such as Aristotle, Seneca, Martin Heidegger, Miguel de Unamuno, María Zambrano, Antonio Machado, and Francisco Ayala, and has edited various works, including one by Ortega: Old and New Politics and Other Programmatic Writings (2007). He is the author of numerous monographs, including José Ortega y Gasset and Practical Reason (2011), The Illness of the Century: The Conflict Between the Enlightenment and Romanticism in the Fin-de-Siècle Crisis of the 19th Century (2003), and The Masks of the Tragic: Philosophy and Tragedy in Miguel de Unamuno (1996).

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Published

2012-05-01 — Updated on 2012-05-01

How to Cite

Cerezo Galán, P. (2012). Pathos, Ethos, Logos (In Tribute to Antonio Rodríguez Huéscar). Revista De Estudios Orteguianos (Journal of Orteguian Studies), (24), 85–107. https://doi.org/10.63487/reo.449

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No. 24 (2012)

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Articles