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José Ortega y Gasset
1883 – 1955 · aged 72
Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist (1883–1955)
- Born
- 9 May 1883 · Madrid
- Died
- 18 Oct 1955 · Madrid
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- 9 May 1883BornBorn in Madrid
- 1914 – 1919RoleAcademic of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences
- 1926RoleVocal of the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios e Investigaciones científicas
- 1931RoleMember of the Cortes republicanas
- 1932AwardGoethe Medal for Art and Science
- 1949AwardGoethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt
- 18 Oct 1955DiedDied in Madrid
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1883 – 1955).
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
Biography
José Ortega y Gasset ( or-TAY-gə; Spanish: [xoˈse oɾˈteɣa j ɣaˈset]; 9 May 1883 – 18 October 1955) was a Spanish philosopher and essayist. He worked during the first half of the 20th century while Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism and dictatorship. His philosophy has been characterized as a "philosophy of life" that comprised "a long-hidden beginning in a pragmatist metaphysics" inspired by William James and with a general method from a realist phenomenology imitating Edmund Husserl, which served both his proto-existentialism (prior to Martin Heidegger's), and his realist historicism, which has been compared to both Wilhelm Dilthey and Benedetto Croce.
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