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    Ortega's philosophy of human life shares essential featur... — Carmelics
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    Ortega's philosophy of human life shares essential features with existentialist philosophy.

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    • 1.Existentialist philosophers emphasize freedom of action and the necessity for the individual to choose what he or she will be.
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    • 2.Ortega's philosophy centrally concerns human freedom and the experience and practice of that freedom.
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    • 3.The central interest uniting Ortega and existential philosophy is not only human freedom but also an emphasis on the lived experience and practice of freedom.
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    • 1.Ortega grounds human life in 'circumstance' (yo soy yo y mi circunstancia), making selfhood constitutively relational rather than radically free.
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    • 2.Sartrean existentialism posits consciousness as pure negation with no pregiven nature, whereas Ortega treats life as having inherent narrative and vocational structure.
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    • 3.This ontological difference means Ortega's project is closer to Dilthey's historicist vitalism than to existentialist radical freedom.
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    • 1.Ortega explicitly rejected the existentialist label and distinguished his 'ratio-vitalism' from Heidegger's and Sartre's frameworks in his 1932 lectures.
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    • 2.Sharing a concern for freedom and lived experience is insufficient for philosophical identity, since Kant and Mill also address freedom yet belong to wholly distinct traditions.
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    • 3.The supporting argument commits the fallacy of affirming a consequent: existentialism entails interest in freedom, but interest in freedom does not entail existentialism.
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    Existentialist philosophers are noted for their emphasis on freedom of action and the necessity for the individual to choose what he or she will be; it becomes apparent, from the above statement, that Ortega has absorbed this intellectual tradition into his own philosophy. Clearly, other philosophers have been concerned with the nature of human freedom preceding the philosophical activity in Europe from the late 1920s to the 1950s. However, the central interest which unites Ortega and existentia
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