Download or read book Ethical Self-determination in Don José Ortega Y Gasset written by Carlos Ramos Mattei and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: José Ortega y Gasset distinguishes himself in twentieth-century philosophy by both his conviction that human life or activity is systematic and his conception of human reasoning as constituted in terms of what he calls «Historical Reason.» According to this study, it is in that concept of Historical Reason that we may also obtain the concept of a «material a priori principle» for the moral self-determination of the human subject.