Some Considerations on the Executive Character of Consciousness: Ortega y Gasset, and the Fortunate Encounter with Phenomenology

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https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v16i33.736

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Ortega y Gasset had stated that, “[…] phenomenology was not a philosophy for us: it was… a good luck”. This is due to the fact that through its Ortega was able to find a way out of neo-Kantianism. Consequently, Ortega will understand that phenomenology seeks to save rationality, without ignoring the experience. However, from the beginning Ortega realizes that the individual is not something isolated, but that it is formed in the relation with the world, the circumstance (he will say around 1914, “I am I and my circumstance; and, if I do not save it, I do not save myself”) and that phenomenology must recover the executive character of life. This essay will trace Ortega's journey from his encounter with phenomenology to his intuitions about life as a radical reality.

Keywords: Ortega y Gasset, Phenomenology, Circumstances, Life, Live experience.

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Luis Alberto Canela Morales, El Colegio de Veracruz

Doctor en Filosofía por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.  Miembro del Sistema nacional de investigadoras e investigadores (SNII). Su trabajo se centra en la fenomenología y el entrecruce con la filosofía analítica. Es autor de Ser y calcular. El problema de las entidades matemáticas en la fenomenología temprana de Edmund Husserl (Editorial Aula de Humanidades, Bogotá: 2023).

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2024-01-01

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Canela Morales, L. A. (2024). Some Considerations on the Executive Character of Consciousness: Ortega y Gasset, and the Fortunate Encounter with Phenomenology. Valenciana, 17(33), 59–86. https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v16i33.736

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No. 33 (2024): Valenciana, enero-junio 2024

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