The Spanish thinker par excellence published in 1923 'El tema de nuestro tiempo’, a work in which he charged against "the great frivolity" of rationalism.

The myth of philosophy consists in believing that the order of thought coincides with the order of reality. This myth is built on a magical Greek word, logos, raised by Plato and put into work by Aristotle. It involves the assumption that reality conforms to some kind of discourse, reasoning, or symbolic language.

There is nothing strange about it. Such is knowledge. Each science raises its object and forges its myths, and this is that of philosophy. Against this myth stands the most daring and anti-rationalist Ortega in a work that is now a century old: El tema de nuestro tiempo.

Continue reading here