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RUIZ FERNANDEZ, JESÚS. José Ortega y Gasset: The Justification of Philosophy. Ideas y Valores [online]. 2012, vol.61, n.150, pp.65-90. ISSN 0120-0062.

The article provides a systematization of the ten answers that can be found in the work of Ortega y Gasset to the question of why human beings philosophize: by nature, out of love, astonishment, curiosity, pleasure, or happiness, to be right, to play, to evade oneself, and to obtain guidance.  If all of these can be integrated and acquire a new meaning with respect to the last response, which corresponds to Ortega's reflections during his third period, in which philosophy is understood as  guidance, this will also be the first thesis of his philosophical system, radical reality. In this way, his philosophy would be justified, an obligation that according to Ortega, applies to all philosophers.

Palabras clave : J. Ortega y Gasset; philosophy.

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