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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: Die Begriffsform im mythischen Denken.

    First published in 1922 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: Volume 4: The Metaphysics of Symbolic Forms

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  • Cover of: Das Erkenntnisproblem in der Philosophie und Wissenschaft der neueren Zeit, 4 Bde., Bd.4, Von Hegels Tod bis zur Gegenwart 1832-1932

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  • Cover of: Das Erkenntnisproblem in der Philosophie und Wissenschaft der neueren Zeit, Bd. 2

    First published in 1907 1 edition — 1 previewable
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    First published in 1920 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Erkenntnisproblem in der Philosophie und Wissenschaft der neueren Zeit / Ernst Cassirer.

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    First published in 1956 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Die geschichte der antiken philosopie

    First published in 1925 1 edition in 1 language
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    First published in 1989 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Diskussionsinlägg: Inhalt und Umfang des Begriffs von Ernst Cassirer. Bemerkungen zu Konrad Marc-Wogau: Inhalt und Umfang des Begriffs.

    First published in 1936 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Einleitung in die Geschichte der philosophischen Anthropologie: Göteborger Vorlesungen 1939/40

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  • Cover of: El Problema del Conocimiento En Filosofia II

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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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