Critique of impure reason: From Nietzsche to Ortega y Gasset

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  • Jesús M. Conill-Sancho Catedrático de Filosofía Moral de la Universidad de Valencia (España)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/rechtd.2015.71.01

Abstract

The main objective of this article is to show Nietzsche’s decisive importance for the origin of vital reason in Ortega y Gasset, as an expression of the dawn of impure reason, which opens us a new philosophical horizon that is able to overcome idealism and positivism. On the basis of Nietzsche’s Aurora the article discusses the Nietzschean background and his infl uence on Ortega y Gasset’s path from pure reason to impure reason in the form of vital reason, understood by Ortega y Gasset as “The Dawn of Historical Reason” and characterized with Nietzschean elements such as imagination and the poetic capacity of the fantastic animal.

Keywords: Nietzsche, Ortega y Gasset, reason, life, imagination.

Author Biography

Jesús M. Conill-Sancho, Catedrático de Filosofía Moral de la Universidad de Valencia (España)

Catedrático de la Universidad de Valencia

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Published

2015-01-18

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Vol. 7 No. 1 (2015): Janeiro/Abril

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