PHILOSOPHER

José Ortega y Gasset

1883 - 1955

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José Ortega y Gasset (Spanish: [xoˈse oɾˈteɣaj ɣaˈset]; 9 May 1883 – 18 October 1955) was a Spanish philosopher and essayist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of José Ortega y Gasset has received more than 920,896 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). José Ortega y Gasset is the 181st most popular philosopher (down from 175th in 2019), the 91st most popular biography from Spain (down from 78th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Spanish Philosopher.

Ortega y Gasset is most famous for his idea of the "revolt of the masses" in which he believes that the masses have become more important than the individual.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, José Ortega y Gasset ranks 181 out of 1,267. Before him are Ernest Renan, Proclus, Karl Kautsky, Posidonius, Pierre Bayle, and Paul Ricœur. After him are Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Marquis de Condorcet, Apollonius of Tyana, Moses Mendelssohn, Bernard Bolzano, and Ibn Tufail.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, José Ortega y Gasset ranks 17. Before him are Nikos Kazantzakis, Lev Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev, Clement Attlee, Victor Francis Hess, and Pierre Laval. After him are Morihei Ueshiba, Otto Heinrich Warburg, Semyon Budyonny, Maurice Utrillo, Norman Haworth, and Theo van Doesburg. Among people deceased in 1955, José Ortega y Gasset ranks 8. Before him are Alexander Fleming, Thomas Mann, James Dean, Dale Carnegie, Sadako Sasaki, and António Egas Moniz. After him are Fernand Léger, Alberto Ascari, Rodolfo Graziani, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Arthur Honegger, and Maurice Utrillo.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, José Ortega y Gasset ranks 91 out of 3,355. Before him are Ramón Mercader (1913), Al-Zahrawi (936), Magnus Maximus (335), Isaac Albéniz (1860), Pablo Casals (1876), and Peter III of Aragon (1239). After him are Avempace (1080), Ibn Tufail (1110), Dolores Ibárruri (1895), Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain (1549), Blanche of Castile (1188), and Vincent of Saragossa (300).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Spain

Among philosophers born in Spain, José Ortega y Gasset ranks 5. Before him are Seneca the Younger (-4), Averroes (1126), Ibn Arabi (1165), and Ramon Llull (1232). After him are Ibn Tufail (1110), Baltasar Gracián (1601), Solomon ibn Gabirol (1021), Miguel de Unamuno (1864), Abraham ibn Ezra (1089), Francisco Suárez (1548), and Arnaldus de Villa Nova (1240).

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