Some thoughts about José Ortega-i-Gasset /part 2/
Man is a life in constant employment and concern. Because the being of man is a drama, as he is responsible for the choice (which is a choice of uncertainties with an unknown final). From this point of view, freedom is burdened with responsibility. By choosing one, one is deprived of another (on the other hand).
José Ortega-gasset symbolizes human life with a shipwreck - thrown from the ship and must be saved by himself. From here he draws his concept of culture - this is a tool through which he seeks a solution to his insecurity. Culture is a means of eliminating insecurity. The purpose and meaning of culture is to reduce (but only partially) the risk in human life.
Ortega develops a philosophy of technique:Culture helps people to realize their life project. First of all, to emancipate and distinguish itself from its natural dependence. In his view, this is done through technique. By "technique," he understands everything that allows man to transform, transform.
The animal is naturally predestined - about the way and place of life. It has a being that is a dependent being. Unlike the animal, the person is not negatively defined - he has devastated or insufficiently strong instincts. Nature has constructed man as a "inadequate" being. The animal is born ready and, in the case of man, it does not die - it perishes if it is left alone.
The technique is an activity of canceling the natural in man. technique is the man's way of saying "No" to nature. Man is the only being capable of adapting nature to himself (and in this respect, the technique is the tool for that).At the core of the technique is a unique human ability - fantasy. Thanks to fantasy, one always lacks something that does not exist. Man is an acting and producing being as far as homo-fantasticos is concerned.
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