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Human Nature, Allegory, and Truth in Plato’s Republic

by Pedro Blas González | May 5, 2013

Pedro Blas González The true lover of learning then must from his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. —Plato Part One of Two.In the allegory of the cave, perhaps Plato’s most famous image, in Book VII of the Republic, the philosopher sets out on...

Ortega y Gasset’s Metaphysical Cure for Invertebrate Cultures

by Pedro Blas González | Feb 20, 2011

The Revolt of the Masses by José Ortega y Gasset. W. W. Norton, [1930] 1994, 192 pages. Reviewed by Pedro Blas González When the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955) published his seminal work The Revolt of the Masses (La Rebellion de las Masas) in...
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