José Ortega y Gasset

✶May 9, 1883

†October 18, 1955

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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 imitating Edmund Husserl, which served both his proto-existentialism, and his realist historicism, which has been compared to both Wilhelm Dilthey and Benedetto Croce.

Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist (1883–1955)

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