 If Ortega’s notion that the “psychic” depictions of modern art were only accessible to a gifted minority were extended to incorporate the notion that every individual intellectual activity apprehends reality from a point of view accessible only to itself, his philosophy of “perspectivism” as the synthetic principle which “regulated the world from the point of view of life” becomes intelligible. The “theme of our time” reflected the absolutist tendencies of rationalism and the skeptical inclinations of relativism, proposing Ortega’s doctrine of “the point of view as a third view of the process of knowledge, which is a perfect synthesis of the two” (Obras, III: 179, 198).