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    It is not the case that 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 affirms human freedom to reshape circumstances, a claim incompatible with deterministic historicist vitalism.
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    • 2.Unlike Dilthey's hermeneutic reconstruction of historical meaning, Ortega emphasizes individual creative response and project-formation.
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    • 3.Existentialists and Ortega share primacy of existence over essence, while Dilthey's vitalism remains closer to Romantic metaphysics of life.
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    • 1.Ortega emphasizes 'circumstance' as constitutive of human existence, aligning with Dilthey's view that life unfolds within historical contexts.
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    • 2.Both thinkers reject abstract universalism, grounding philosophy in lived experience shaped by generational and temporal particularity.
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    • 3.Ortega's concept of 'vital reason' prioritizes continuity with historical tradition over existentialist emphasis on radical negation and rupture.
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