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    Human life is purposive activity, best understood through history

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    • 1.History is the study of actions of human beings done in the past
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    • 2.Because history studies human activity, it studies purposive activity
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    • 3.What nature is to things, history as res gestae is to man
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    • 1.Wittgenstein and Ryle demonstrate that rule-following and habitual practice are constitutive of human life without requiring explicit purposive representation.
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    • 2.History as res gestae selectively preserves deliberate, goal-directed actions and systematically excludes the routine, embodied practices that form the bulk of human existence.
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    • 3.Therefore, identifying human life with historically-recoverable purposive activity distorts what is most pervasive and fundamental in human existence.
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    • 1.Human life contains biologically-grounded drives and unconscious motivations that resist purposive, historically-legible interpretation (Freud, Schopenhauer).
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    • 2.If significant human behavior originates below the threshold of conscious intention, then purposiveness cannot be the primary lens for understanding human life.
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    To explain reality, Ortega continued, the natural sciences, in their concern with the existence of objects in natural phenomena, aim at discovering the general concepts or the natural laws under which these objects may be subsumed. In order to understand the relationship between human life and reality, therefore, the individual must escape from what he labels, “the terrorism of the laboratory”. Through his various readings of Kant, Ortega learned that the autonomous mind must liberate the self f
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