¿Por qué el hombre no tiene naturaleza? La figura del animal fantástico como respuesta en el pensamiento de Ortega

• de Haro Honrubia, Alejandro ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha / UNED
• Localización: Isegoría: Revista de filosofía moral y política, ISSN 1130-2097, Nº. 68, 2023
• Idioma: español
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  • Why does man have no nature? The figure of the fantastic animal as an answer in Ortega’s thought
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  • español

    Las siguientes páginas versan sobre el valor que el filósofo español José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) concedió en su obra de madurez intelectual a la fantasía o la imaginación como dimensión fundamental de la vida humana como realidad radical que nos permite trascender, aunque sea a costa de convertirnos en tránsfugas o desertores de nuestra propia animalidad, nuestra propia naturaleza instintiva e irracional. Nuestra argumentación pivotará en torno a la conocida tesis del filósofo español que dice que «el hombre no tiene naturaleza, sino que tiene... historia», que es, según Ortega, esforzarse en realizar lo imaginario, lo que nos permite hablar del ser humano como animal fantástico, estando aquí la clave de este trabajo.

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    The following pages deal with the value that the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) gave in his work of intellectual maturity to fantasy or imagination as a fundamental dimension of human life as a radical reality that allows us to transcend, even if it is at the cost of becoming defectors, or deserters of our own animality, our own instinctive and irrational nature. Our argument will revolve around the well-known thesis of the Spanish philosopher who says that “man does not have nature, but rather has... history”, which is, according to Ortega, striving to realize the imaginary, which allows us to speak of a human being as a fantastic animal, being here the key of this work.The following pages deal with the value that the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) gave in his work of intellectual maturity to fantasy or imagination as a fundamental dimension of human life as a radical reality that allows us to transcend, even if it is at the cost of becoming defectors, or deserters of our own animality, our own instinctive and irrational nature. Our argument will revolve around the well-known thesis of the Spanish philosopher who says that “man does not have nature, but rather has... history”, which is, according to Ortega, striving to realize the imaginary, which allows us to speak of a human being as a fantastic animal, being here the key of this work.