In this article we present the concept of human life as eternal text in Ortega's thought, and its consequences for the problem of interpretation. Ortega's philosophy of vital reason is grounded in the concept of human life as radical reality and universal interpretative principle, and for this reason his philosophy appears from the beginning as a hermeneutic philosophy of life and not as reduction to transcendental consciousness. This hermeneutic is especially carried out in the sphere of art. For Ortega, however, all text is hermeneutic and therefore needs interpretation, because no text has its own truth in itself.
Ortega y Gasset; Human life; Interpretation; Vital reason; Text