Historia, creencia y convención en Hume y en Ortega
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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ISSN: 2340-2199, 1575-6823
Year of publication: 2018
Issue Title: Monográfico I: HUME. Monográfico II: La Integración Inter-Regional Euro Latino Americana a través de los Derechos Humanos
Volume: 20
Issue: 40
Pages: 403-419
Type: Article
More publications in: Araucaria: Revista Iberoamericana de Filosofía, Política, Humanidades y Relaciones Internacionales
Abstract
The paper approaches Hume and Ortega as authors of historical narratives of their respective societies. This is related to the fact that both developed theories of belief or convention that play an important role in their historical work. Hume arrives at his definitive understanding very early on in the Treatise of Human Nature though in this work property plays an important role. In Ortega’s case, his theory of belief is developed in his mature work, after España Invertebrada and La Rebelión de las Masas and the crucial distinction between masses and minorities. It is in the context of the crisis of the thirties that he arrives at the concepts of belief, use, and legitimacy. There is a development of Ortega’s thought by which, in order to defend a greater political and social union in Europe, it was necesary for him to abandon a more explicit and intuitive concept of reason, and develop an understanding of reason as narrative, involving both belief and use, for it to be instrumental in man’s self undestanding. Hume’s History of England is a different case in so far as he applies concepts that he had developed earlier though it is significant that it is obedience, more than property, that appears as the significant convention.
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