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...it would be a very naive sort of dogmatism to assume that there exists an absolute reality of thi...

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An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture

Absolute trust in the reality of things begins to be shaken as the problem of truth enters upon the ...

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The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms 3: The Phenomenology of Knowledge

There is no remedy against this reversal of the natural order. Man cannot escape from his own achiev...

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An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture

Such is the strange situation in which modern philosophy finds itself. No former age was ever in suc...

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An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture

It is necessary, first of all, to find a correct logical starting point, one which can lead us to a ...

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An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture

The form of observation , which underlines all speech and language development, always expresses a p...

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Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and t...

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An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture

The facts of science always imply a theoretical, which means a symbolic, element.

An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture

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Ernst Cassirer

Philosopher

Born: 1874-07-28

Died: 1945-04-13

Ernst Cassirer (July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German Jewish philosopher. Coming out of the Marburg tradition of neo-Kantianism, he developed a philosophy of culture as a theory of symbols founded in a phenomenology of knowledge. His son, Heinz Cassirer, was also a Kantian scholar.More