Ortega y los predicados culturales de la percepción

Abstract

“Perception” is one of the essential elements to understand the Ortega’s thought: it’s the way by which our consciousness opens to the circumstance; the fundament to all perspective and, accordingly, a central element for our philosopher. At the same time, the perception is one of the elements that makes Ortega into one of the most original researchers in this field. In this article, we want to show how the philosophy of perception in Ortega —with perspectivist root— includes, since his beginning, a philosophy of culture, and he does it by a not forcibly way. It happens, like we will see, because he based his philosophy of perception on the individual’s mundaneness and because he supports their cognoscitive perception in the phenomenon of attention. For this, when Ortega talks about perception, he does it such as perception with cultural predicates. Ortega was one of the first researchers to warn the inevitability of that quality.

http://dx.doi.org/10.15304/ag.35.2.2839