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    It is not the case that Ortega's philosophy of human life shares essential features with existentialist philosophy.

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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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    • 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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