Ortega, at the foot of Mount Helicon

Authors

  • Javier Gomá Fundación Juan March

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.63487/reo.528

Keywords:

Ortega y Gasset, courtesy, stylistic clarity, sociability, philosophy at the living room

Abstract

Clarity in Ortega y Gasset´s prose, defined by him as a way of courtesy, lays on a previous ontological and anthropological conception: truth is attractive and concerns every man. Ortega was a civic philosopher and an instructor who mastered the sociability in Philosophy. His will to “shine in society” must be understood as a search of a test of Reason based on his philosophical hypothesis.

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Author Biography

Javier Gomá, Fundación Juan March

He holds degrees in classical philology and law, as well as a Ph.D. in philosophy. He is a lawyer with the Council of State, currently on leave of absence. Furthermore, he is currently the director of the Juan March Foundation. His first book, Imitation and Experience (2003), won the 2004 National Essay Prize. This study is part of a trilogy on the concept of “life experience” that continues in Aquiles en el gineceo (2007) and Ejemplaridad pública (2009). Alongside this trilogy on “experience,” he has planned a monograph on “hope” titled Necesario pero imposible. The author contributes to magazines and cultural supplements, and for his article “La majestad del símbolo” (2001), published in Nueva revista de política, cultura y arte, he won the 13th FIES Journalism Award.

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Published

2009-05-01 — Updated on 2009-11-01

How to Cite

Gomá, J. (2009). Ortega, at the foot of Mount Helicon. Revista De Estudios Orteguianos (Journal of Orteguian Studies), (19), 117–123. https://doi.org/10.63487/reo.528

Issue

No. 19 (2009)

Section

Articles