%0 Journal Article %T LA RAZ¨®N VITAL DE J. ORTEGA Y GASSET Y LA ANAL¨ªTICA EXISTENCIAL DE M. HEIDEGGER %A DE NIGRIS %A FRANCESCO %J Ideas y Valores %D 2012 %I Universidad Nacional de Colombia %X according to heidegger, being cannot be taken as a blind starting point or belief. ortega y gasset's critique of this approach to the problem of being reveals the distance between two perspectives that are, nevertheless, joined by the actual horizon they explore: human life. however, their results are different because the analysis of dasein aims at discovering the general meaning of being, while ortega's conception of being as a belief, as a historical interpretation of life linked to a "way of thinking", turns his analysis of vital reason into a personal project of salvation. %K j. ortega %K gasset %K m %K heidegger %K existence %K person %K being. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0120-00622012000100007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en