[livius]

XThe absence of standards, as Ortega y Gasset remarked, is the beginning of barbarism...

Great article, although "sad" is probably too mild a description.

Ortega y Gasset forecast the entire 20th (and, probably, 21st) century. Read his The Revolt of the Masses ("La Rebelión de las Masas") for details.

Also, philosophically inclined persons might like Ortega y Gasset's disciple, Julián Marías. Unfortunately, very little of his work has been translated from the Spanish. I'd love to translate it, but, alas, I don't think there's much of a market for it in modern publisher-land. The truths are too close to home.

[cornelis]

Hi, livius. Ortega in Spanish! Ortega was for Spain with hope. Even the English is a treat (Norton).

Objectivism Revisited: Ortega on Philosophy and Science

Ortega: I Exist Therefore I Think. (critique of idealism, phenomenology, and other such objectivism)