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José Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish philosopher and essayist. He worked during the first half of the 20th century while Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism and dictatorship. His philosophy has been characterized as a "philosophy of life" that comprised "a long-hidden beginning in a pragmatist metaphysics" inspired by William James and with a general method from a realist phenomenology…
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politics · Spanish philosopher and essayist (1883–1955) · philosopher · pedagogue · writer · university teacher · sociologist · literary critic · opinion journalist · politician · translator · essayist · also José Ortega y Gasset, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Gasset
Born 9 May 1883 · Died 18 October 1955 · Q153020
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“is being free inside of a given fate. Fate gives us an inexorable repertory of determinate possibilities, that is, it gives us different destinies. We accept fate and within it we choose one destiny.”
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Gestión: José Ortega y Gasset, filósofo: “Siempre que enseñes, enseña a la vez a dudar de lo que enseñas”
El Comercio: Cita del día, José Ortega y Gasset, filósofo: “Siempre que enseñes, enseña a la vez a dudar de lo que enseñas”
El Periódico de España: José Ortega y Gasset, filósofo madrileño, ya lo adelantó el siglo pasado: "Yo soy yo y mis circunstancias, y si no la salvo a ella no me salvo yo"
Telva: José Ortega y Gasset, filósofo español: "La vida es una serie de colisiones con el futuro. No es la suma de lo que hemos sido, sino de lo que anhelamos ser"
Covering three courses taught in 1929, 1930, and 1931, entitled, respectively: "Vida como ejecución (El ser ejecutivo)" – "Life as execution (The executive being)", "Sobre la realidad radical" – "On radical reality" and
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Died 1955-10-18.
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“Quien en nombre de la libertad renuncia a ser el que tiene que ser, ya se ha matado en vida: es un suicida en pie. Su existencia consistirá en una perpetua fuga de la única realidad que podía ser”
“Esta é a primeira consequência que sobrevém quando no mundo alguém deixa de mandar: que os demais, ao se rebelarem, ficam sem tarefa, sem programa de vida.”
“Ser de la izquierda es, como ser de la derecha, una de las infinitas maneras que el hombre puede elegir para ser un imbécil: ambas, en efecto, son formas de la hemiplejía moral.”
“Eu sou eu e minha circunstância, e se não salvo a ela, não me salvo a mim.”
“Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.”
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“Foi preciso esperar até o começo do século XX para se presenciar um espectáculo incrível: o da peculiarísssima brutalidade e agressiva estupidez com que se comporta um homem quando sabe muito de uma coisa e ignora todas as demais.”
Awarded Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt in Frankfurt (1949).
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With the Latin-language title De Europa meditatio quaedam
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Returned to Madrid, where he founded the Institute of Humanities, at which he lectured
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Under the title "Esquema de las crisis" – "Outline of crises"; Mildred Adams's translation was published in 1958 as Man and Crisis
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Buenos Aires, published 1979 along with Sobre la razón histórica)
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Won Goethe Medal for Art and Science (1932).
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Is by a translator who wanted to remain anonymous, generally accepted to be J
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Career landmark: Member of the Cortes republicanas (1931–1933).
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Career landmark: Member of the Cortes republicanas (1931–1931).
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Career landmark: vocal of the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios e Investigaciones científicas (1926).
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Became a contributor to the newspaper El Sol, where he published, as a series of essays, his two principal works: España invertebrada (Invertebrate Spain) and La rebelión de las masas (The Revolt of the Masses)
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Career landmark: Academic of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences (1914–1919).
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Married Rosa Spottorno Topete, a Spanish translator and feminist, and was named full professor of Metaphysics at Complutense University of Madrid, a vacant seat previously held by Nicolás Salmerón
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Was appointed professor of Philosophy, Logic and Ethics at the Escuela Superior del Magisterio de Madrid
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Studied at University of Marburg (1906).
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Born 1883-05-09.
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