Reason and Life. Phenomenological Interpretations of Don Quixote
Don Quixote is not only a novel which represents Spanish culture, but a hero that reveals the relation between life and reason. I will compare two interpretations of Don Quixote. The first phenomenological interpretation belongs to Ortega Y Gasset, and the second to Lithuanian philosopher Algis M...
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2013
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| Sumario: | Don Quixote is not only a novel
which represents Spanish culture, but a hero
that reveals the relation between life and reason. I will compare two interpretations of Don
Quixote. The first phenomenological interpretation belongs to Ortega Y Gasset, and the second to Lithuanian philosopher Algis Mickūnas.
The interpretations of Don Quixote are related
to the question about an ideal. What is the role
of ideals in culture? Are ideals principles constructed by reason? Do these principles deny
the reality of life, or are ideals related to the
self life-world rationality? Then what does the
idealism of Don Quixote mean? Does it represent a utopian rationality or does it seek to
show values that are not reduced to circumstance? Ortega criticizes Don Quixote as an
idealist, who can’t find any ideal values in the
nearest environment. Mickūnas suggests interpreting Don Quixote’s idealism as a phenomenological bracketing, which allows one to doubt
the blind dependence on this life-world and
question its value |
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