Alberto Oya

The aim of this talk is to analyze Julián Marías’s (1914­–2005) metaphysical anthropology and his argument for claiming that a Christian religious understanding of the world is justified as it being the natural outcome of our own constitutive human condition. Expanding on José Ortega y Gasset’s thesis that “mi vida” (and each one’s life) is the most fundamental ontological category, Marías offers a novel connection between happiness, authenticity and longing for personal immortality, that allows him to conclude that hoping for Christian Salvation through Resurrection, and so engaging in the kind of way of life that is involved in this hope, what Marías named as “the Christian Perspective”, is a self-affirming exercise that will lead us to the enjoyment of an authentic life that is worth living.

Alberto Oya (NOVA University Lisbon)

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