Ortega Y Gasset the Spanish Term Paper

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However, he reconciles these opposite views in what he designs as the new religion for man:

While he knew that a collapse and ricorso of Vico's type into a "divine" and "barbaric" epoch was possible, he did not regard any such colossal disaster as necessary or likely. He put hope above fear, and positive over negative. He seems to have foreseen a historical transformation similar to the change from Hellenic to "Hellenistic" in ancient civilization, which, in the Roman Empire, finally did collapse into such a barbaric ricorso, or cycle. European and "Western" phases of civilization have not yet experienced Spengler's or Toynbee's "Roman paradigm" of World State and World Religion, and Ortega trusted that such a horrible outcome could be forever avoided by a kind of federal world order built on the model of the European Union.
" (Graham, 2001, p.504)

Thus, Ortega y Gasset's main attempt is to create a philosophy whose main purpose is to reveal life-reality, above anything else, and for this, the man should find his new belief in history, since it is history that best discloses the patterns of human life.

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