Ortega and Civil Liberties

Abstract

This paper aims at studying the meaning of liberties within Ortega’s thought and works. The interest of this topic is based upon the fact that José Ortega y Gasset is regarded as one of the most genuine and solid representatives of Spanish Liberalism. Taking into account that liberties have a continuous reference in Ortega’s works, this paper will not attempt to cover every one of them. No complete list of quotations related to rights and liberties have been tried to be displayed. No quantitative census of terminological references has been elaborated. Instead, I have preferred to lay out a qualitative approach to the rationalvitalistic concept of rights, which derives both from explicit references and implicit thesis.