Razón vital como bio-logía. La filosofía de Ortega y su relación con la ciencia biológica

Abstract

This paper shows how José Ortega y Gasset’s philosophy, one of the most important thinkers of the first half of the twentieth century, has biological science as its basis and constant reference. This idea, defended by some interpreters must, nonetheless, be remarked and emphasize by analyzing how the orteguian ratiovitalist philosophy is an eminently biological. Addressing the influence of various scientists—especially J. von Uexküll—we will posit such thesis, highlighting as well the potentiality of Ortega’s thought for the present moment, when biological science has risen as the paradigmatic science of our time.