Self and Intimacy in Ortega y Gasset

Abstract

The concept of the Self in the thought of Jose Ortega y Gasset appears repeatedly along his work, and was treated and mingled with different perspectives and reflections: psychological, sociological, artistic, historical, etc. Nonetheless, the focus of this writing is situated in the important epistemological relationship between his Ratio-vitalism philosophy and Personal Intimacy, which is the center and the origin for the development of the human Self. Thanks to the enrichment of Intimacy, the Self can develop its own personal vocation to the authenticity it is called to, thus saving the incertitude, drama and destiny it faces when trying to overcome its own vital circumstance.