OF THE PRINCIPLE OF SUFFICIENT REASON (OF LEIBNIZ), TO THE PRAGMATIC IDEA OF REAL IMPOSSIBLE (THE ORTEGA)

In Ortega's opinion, Adam never lived in Eden or Eden wasn't completely a paradise and therefore human life has been problematic since it's very beginning. Man never enjoyed a total harmony later lost because of his disobedience to God's mandate. According to Ortega, << paradise >> does not lie in the past but perhaps may come to be in the future; and is not in any case a datum from above but perhaps a difficult but achievable human factum. Having abandoned ontological optimism, it was to Ortega's merit, thanks to the pragmatist nature of his philosophy, that he did not fall into existentialist pessimism or nihilist banality. For this reason, Ortega had to confront Leibniz's ontological rationalism and attempt to replace the concept of << sufficient meaning >> with the concept of << impossible reality >>.