 While Ortega’s general ontological position does bear some similarities to Heidegger’s existentiale Analytik, and while his idea of human life shows some affinities with Dilthey’s Lebensphilosophie, there are also differences between these philosophies and Ortega’s fundamental philosophical position. The important difference to point out pertains to the observation that Ortega proceeded beyond the distinctive positions of Daseinanalyse and Lebensanalyse by incorporating the two concepts. That is, for Ortega, analysis of being and the analysis of human life constituted at once the systematic analysis of the existence of man in his “lived-relations” and his “being-in-the-world”. Furthermore, Ortega makes explicit the connection between the concept of historical time and the concept of everyday reality in that temporality constitutes the basic relation between human beings and their activities in the world.