 In this broader connection, Ortega’s concept of human life comprised a dimension which was similar to the Fundamentalontologie of Heidegger’s Daseinanalyse. Ortega’s analysis of human existence and human life characterized “I am I and my circumstances” as the interchangeable interaction of the “I” and “the world”. That is, “I am always with myself…the world is always linked with me and my being is a being with the world” (Obras, VII: 394, 405, 402). Ortega wanted to liberate the “I” from the “internal prison” of “subjectivism” and proposed that we “save ourselves in the world”, in “that vital horizon”. This sense of being as having been “thrown into” the “world” further characterizes the authentic reality of life as “finding oneself face to face with the world” and “inside the world” (Obras, VII: 411, 416–17, 430; compare Heidegger 1927 [1962: 236, 399]). To “escape from idealism”, then, “life includes both the subject [the conscious self] and the world”. Living is “finding oneself in the world”. Hence: