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Ernst Cassirer

Ernst Cassirer was a German philosopher. Trained within the Neo-Kantian Marburg School, he initially followed his mentor Hermann Cohen in attempting to supply an idealistic philosophy of science; after Cohen's death, he developed a theory of symbolism, and used it to expand phenomenology of knowledge into a more general philosophy of culture. He is one of the leading 20th century advocates of philosophical idealism.

At Hamburg Cassirer discovered the Library of the Cultural Sciences founded by Aby Warburg. Warburg was an art historian who was particularly interested in ritual and myth as sources of surviving forms of emotional expression. In Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (1923–1929) Cassirer argues that man (as he put it in his more popular 1944 book Essay on Man) is a "symbolic animal". Whereas animals perceive their world by instincts and direct sensory perception, humans create a universe of symbolic meanings. Cassirer is particularly interested in natural language and myth. He argues that science and mathematics developed from natural language, and religion and art from myth.

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German philosopher

Born july 28, 1874
Died April 131945

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  • Cover of: El Problema del Conocimiento En Filosofia III

    First published in 1988 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: El problema del conocimiento en la filosofía y en la ciencia modernas: De la muerte de Hegel a nuestro días (1832-1932)

    First published in 1948 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Filosofia de las Formas Simbolicas, Volume I: El Lenguaje (Seccion de Obras de Filosofia)

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  • Cover of: Filosofia de las Formas Simbolicas, Volume III: Fenomenologia del Reconocimiento (Seccion de Obras de Filosofia)

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  • Cover of: Filosofia delle forme simboliche

    First published in 1961 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Geschichte.: Mythos : mit Beilagen Biologie, Ethik, Form Kategorienlehre, Kunst, Organologie, Sinn, Sprache, Zeit

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  • Cover of: Geschichte, mythos: mit Beilagen : Biologie, Ethik, Form, Kategorienlehre, Kunst, Organologie, Sinn, Sprache, Zeit

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  • Cover of: Heinrich von Kleist und die Kantische Philosophie

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  • Cover of: Idee und Gestalt - Goethe, Schiller, Hölderlin, Kleist: fünf Aufsätze.

    First published in 1921 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Individuum und Kosmos in der Philosophie der Renaissance ; Die platonische Renaissance in England und die Schule von Cambridge

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  • Cover of: Kulturphilosophie: Vorlesungen und Vorträge 1929-1941

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  • Cover of: La Filosofia de La Ilustracion

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  • Cover of: filosofia dell'illuminismo.

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  • Cover of: Langage et mythe: à propos des noms de dieux

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German philosopher

Born july 28, 1874
Died April 131945
Subjects
Philosophy, Theory of Knowledge, Symbolism, Language and languages, Mythology, Civilization, History, Philosophie, Modern Philosophy, Connaissance, Théorie de la, Relativity (Physics), Renaissance Philosophy, Philosophical anthropology, The State, German Philosophy, Human beings, Humanities, Knowledge, theory of, Physics, Political science, Substance (Philosophy), Causality (Physics), Cosmology, Enlightenment, Free will and determinism
Places
England, Germany, Itália
People
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945), Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811), René Descartes (1596-1650), Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), Christina Queen of Sweden (1626-1689), Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Freiherr von (1646-1716), Nicholas of Cusa, Cardinal (1401-1464), Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), Thomas Thorild (1759-1808), Aby Warburg (1866-1929), Axel Hägerström (1868-1939), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), Günter Braun, Jahann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832), Johanna Braun, Plato, Thomas Mann (1875-1955), ernst cassirer
Time
18th century, 19th century, 20th century, 17th century

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