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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Philosophy, Theory of Knowledge, Mythology, Philosophie, Relativity (Physics), Connaissance, Théorie de la, German Philosophy, Humanities, Language and languages, Myth, Mythologie, Physics, Political science, Substance (Philosophy), The State, Aesthetics, Causality (Physics), Conocimiento, Teoría del, German literature, History, History and criticism, Knowledge, Theory of, Langage et langues, Language, MitologíaPeople
Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Freiherr von (1646-1716), Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811), Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), René Descartes (1596-1650), Aby Warburg (1866-1929), Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945), Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), Nicholas of Cusa, Cardinal (1401-1464), ernst cassirerID Numbers
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