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A Footnote on the "Mr.Loeb" in José Ortega y Gasset's "History as a System"

Posted Monday, May 26th, 2008 at 23:28 by Errigal

From José Ortega y Gasset's "History as a System":

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What has collapsed in it is the rhetoric, the trimmings of childish presumption, of irrational and arbitrary additions it gave rise to, what, many years ago, I styled "the terrorism of the laboratory." This is why ever since I began to write I have combated what I called scientific Utopianism. Open, for example, El terra de nuestro tiempo at the chapter entitled "The historic sense of Einstein's

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The Throne is Empty

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From José Ortega y Gasset's “Man The Technician” concerning the English Gentleman

Posted Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 at 18:55 by Errigal

(First published in English in 1940)

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But enough of digressions. We were bent on contrasting the two situations of man that ensue from his aspiration to be a gentleman or a bodhisattva. The difference is radical. It will become quite clear when we point out some characteristics of the gentleman. Concerning the gentleman we must first state that he is not the same as an aristocrat. No doubt, English aristocrats were the first to invent this mode of being, but they were...

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