The controversies surrounding Ortega during the Franco regime (1942–1965)

Abstract

The relations of Ortega with the Spanish right were marked from the begining, by the religious factor. His agnosticism and his defense of the laity alienated the support of most of the Spanish conservatism. For what, along Franco´s regime, declared catholic, numerous controversies were taking place of the character of the orteguian philosophy, centring specialy on his religious heterodoxy. This forced to be defining to divers intellectual inserted sector his institutions. The doctrinal evolution of the right from the sixties, and the effect of the Council Vatican the lind, provoked a change in this relation with Ortega and his philosophy.