The philosophy of the game and the origin of political institutions in the thought of José Ortega y Gasset
Our paper deals with the essays by José Ortega y Gasset entitled El origen deportivo del Estado (1924), La caza y los toros (1929) and Idea del teatro (1946), among other texts that are sources of reference for working on the concepts of the philosophy of play and the formation of political institut...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Prometeica (Mar del Plata) |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/19261 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.unifesp.br/index.php/prometeica/article/view/19261 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | José Ortega y Gasset juego politica Filosofía jogo Filosofia politics play Philosophy |
| Sumario: | Our paper deals with the essays by José Ortega y Gasset entitled El origen deportivo del Estado (1924), La caza y los toros (1929) and Idea del teatro (1946), among other texts that are sources of reference for working on the concepts of the philosophy of play and the formation of political institutions. Sport and leisure activities are the reflection of technology applied to the constitution of civilisation and to ‘happy occupations’, where human beings find fun, joy and spontaneous enjoyment in the face of unavoidable work tasks. According to Ortega, dialectics is the ‘vital reason’ manifested in the creation of techniques to be expressed through social and institutional systems. Likewise, the human being is represented as a lacking being thrown into the world to confront the ‘dramas’ arising within his circumstance. From this crisis, Ortega elaborates a ‘first philosophy’ based on play and sport to explain the integration of culture, politics and the position of the human being mythologised in the figure of an ‘ontological centaur’, situated between the natural and the artificial, obliged to make decisions and destined to satisfy his basic and superfluous needs. |
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