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José Ortega y Gasset · 1930
A philosophical essay analyzing the rise of the masses to social power in twentieth-century Europe, arguing that the mass-man lacks the intellectual and moral qualities necessary for self-governance or cultural leadership. Ortega critiques the mediocrity and conformism of the undifferentiated masses while contrasting them with select minorities who demand excellence of themselves.
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What this book knows
Modern mass-man, spoiled by civilization's gifts, claims rights without obligations and so threatens the very order that made him possible.
obedience-and-authority
Why should he listen if he has within him all that is necessary? There is no question in which he does not intervene, blind and deaf, imposing his opinions.
REVM-RC-042A type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions. This is the new thing.
REVM-RC-043self-and-identity
To spoil means to put no limit on caprice, to give one the impression that everything is permitted and that he has no obligations.
REVM-RC-034Nobility is synonymous with a life of effort, ever set on excelling oneself, in passing beyond what one is to what one sets up as duty and obligation.
REVM-RC-038ambition-and-status
They imagine their role is limited to demanding the benefits of civilization peremptorily, as if they were natural rights.
REVM-RC-035You want the ordinary man to be master. Well, do not be surprised if he acts for himself, demands all forms of enjoyment, refuses all kinds of service.
REVM-RC-011Illuminates
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