Fantasy and Life in the Thought of Ortega y Gasset

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.63487/reo.563

Keywords:

Ortega y Gasset, fantasy, vital reason, fantastic animal, civil ethics

Abstract

The aim of this article is to point out the decisive importance of the fantasy in the Ortegian conception of life and vital reason, and also to show the fundamental difference between human being and animal, to understand the power of technics and ethics in the transformation of reality.

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Author Biography

Jesús Conill Sancho, Universidad de Valencia

A professor of moral philosophy at the University of Valencia, he has been a DAAD fellow in Munich and a researcher at the universities of Bonn, Frankfurt, Munich, St. Gallen, and Notre Dame. His publications include the following books: Time in Aristotle’s Philosophy (1981), The Twilight of Metaphysics (1988), The Enigma of the Fantastic Animal (1991), and The Power of Lies. Nietzsche and the Politics of Transvaluation (1997), Horizons of Ethical Economics (2004), and Hermeneutic Ethics (2006).

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Published

2008-05-01 — Updated on 2008-05-01

How to Cite

Conill Sancho, J. (2008). Fantasy and Life in the Thought of Ortega y Gasset. Revista De Estudios Orteguianos (Journal of Orteguian Studies), (16/17), 107–119. https://doi.org/10.63487/reo.563

Issue

No. 16/17 (2008)

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Articles