J. Ortega y Gasset's Vital Reason and M. Heidegger'sExistential Analytic

According to Heidegger, being cannot be taken as a blind starting point or belief. Ortega y Gasset’s critique of this approach to the problem of being reveals the distance between two perspectives that are, nevertheless, joined by the actual horizon they explore: human life. However, their results a...

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Main Author: Francesco de Nigris
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Language:English
Published: Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2012-04-01
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Online Access:http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/idval/article/viewFile/20083/30169
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description According to Heidegger, being cannot be taken as a blind starting point or belief. Ortega y Gasset’s critique of this approach to the problem of being reveals the distance between two perspectives that are, nevertheless, joined by the actual horizon they explore: human life. However, their results are different because the analysis of Dasein aims at discovering the general meaning of being, while Ortega’s conception of being as a belief, as a historical interpretation of life linked to a “way of thinking”, turns his analysis of vital reason into a personal project of salvation.
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title J. Ortega y Gasset's Vital Reason and M. Heidegger'sExistential Analytic
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title_short J. Ortega y Gasset's Vital Reason and M. Heidegger'sExistential Analytic
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