Word: ortega
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...days later, he was wounded by a bull, got stitched up, returned to fight a second bull, got wounded again. This winter, if his health lasts, he will become a full matador, fit to join the really tough company of the great Spanish past masters, Manolete and Ortega. Say the Mexicans of immovable Little Joe: "His future is either five million pesos-or the mausoleum...
...national states based their welfare on comparable grounds. The belief, held by nobles and peasants alike, that kings were appointed to rule by God Himself ensured the vitality and solidarity of medieval states. To those who argue that the belief was false, as well as not conducive to liberty, Ortega calmly retorts that "all belief is blind," and that liberty is nothing more than man's belief that he possesses it. "There is, in principle, no single liberty man cannot forego and yet feel as free as ever...
...Ortega barely mentions the word democracy in his book; he is less concerned with what form government takes than with its need to have an acceptable illusion to govern by. Missing from Philosopher Ortega's thesis is evidence that the medieval peasants and Roman multitudes shared his enthusiastic acceptance of the conditions under which they lived. But Ortega-who is paradoxically a hater of the law and of institutions, which he accepts only because he considers them "realities"-insists that oppression can be carried to great lengths before it becomes as destructive and perilous to the life and spirit...
Precisely this fatal split occurs, says Ortega, when the faith that has given rich & poor a common belief grows old and dies. It is then that the philosopher must supply the world with a belief that will be both inspiring and practical enough to restore its faith in human cooperation...
Today, says Philosopher Ortega, is a time of social collapse when such a new faith is needed. He cannot tell what that new faith will...