El compromiso por la vida auténtica en Ortega y Gasset

In this paper we address and ex-plore the Ortegian concept of authentic-ity. Life is a work that each person has to discover and conquer. This means that its fullness is inseparable from concepts such as “destiny”, “project”, “mission” or “duty”. For Ortega, it is a matter of betting on a vi-tal path that lives up to our best intentions, of examining and valuing the moral caliber of personal life. We suggest how Ortega’s proposal could be adjusted to the contem-porary context by taking into account some of the most relevant developments with re-spect to notions of subject and ego, which seem to be haunted by forces that prevent them from having absolute sovereignty over themselves.