THE ORTEGUIAN SOURCES IN HIS NOTION OF “ATTENTION”

Abstract

Attention is an essential phenomenon to understand the scope of the perspectival methodology in Ortega; therefore, it’s a useful tool to go further in the study of the applicability of ratiovitalism. At the same time, for it is easy tracking in the Ortega’s work, it’s a good knoll to investigate the sources which influenced Ortega in the establishment and, therefore, to explore the shaping of his methodology. Our study, based on an analysis of the phenomenon of attention in Ortega's work, guides us to find, in the phenomenological studies of perception, the core of such influence, thereby accentuating the role of phenomenology in the establishment of Ortega's thought.