Hello everyone, I'm Stephen West. This is philosophize this. Sorry about the voice. Just getting

over being sick, but I'm happy to be here. I want to thank everyone who supports the podcast

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Jordan Colton, Gary Butterfield, and Marie Hathcock, Adam Rotmil. These are real people, folks,

the heroes that storm the burning buildings and help keep this podcast going. So be sure to say

thank you if you see them out there on the streets this week. I'm going to take a little time to get

caught up on these shout outs. I'll do some more next time. I hope you love the show today.

So before we begin, there's a few things you got to know about the philosopher we're going to be

covering today who goes by the name of Jose Ortega Egas set. From here on out, by the way, I'm just

going to be referring to as Ortega. As a card-carrying citizen of the United States, I am spiritually

obligated over here to abbreviate practically everything in existence. Y'all know this. We save time

over here with abbreviations so that we can argue with each other more. So Ortega, by no means,

gets a free pass there. A few things you got to know about the guy. Some people refer to him as an

existentialist philosopher, but that would only describe a portion of the work that the guy did

throughout his career. Some people call him a phenomenologist, but that would be equally misleading.

I mean, in his words, he abandoned phenomenology as an exclusive approach to philosophy, almost the

instant that he understood it. Some people call him a historicist, a contextualist, a social critic,

but when it comes to Jose Ortega himself and the way that he viewed his body of work, he was

never really all that big on putting labels or titles on stuff. It seemed a bit too limiting to him.

So maybe the most accurate way to describe Ortega is to say that he's the type of philosopher that

you really don't see too much of in today's day and age. What I mean is there's a lot of thinkers

out there who spend almost every second of their time here on this planet critiquing the work of

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