La noción de ´creencia´ y su manifestación en el uso o vigencia. Hacia una fenomenología del mundo social en José Ortega y Gasset

Abstract

This article aims to give an account of a fundamental reflection on the Ortega y Gasset s philosophy. Parting from critics from the modern point of view and represented, in this case by Husserl, Ortega states his idea of human life as a radical reality.The analysis of the ´presence´ of life entails the problem of the correlation human being-world as it questions how the self develops in the circumstance. Ortega s answers to this question from the notion of ´belief´, which is analyzed here as a central point for getting to the fundamental theme: the phenomenology of the social world, which is framed in concepts such as ´use´ and ´validity´. Thus, this work wants to give an account of a phenomenological path parting from the concrete, from the ´presence´ of life and up to the existence of society as a fundamental circumstanceof all human life.