Ernst Cassirer
German-Jewish philosopher and intellectual historian, leading Neo-Kantian known for his philosophy of symbolic forms and major works such as The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms and An Essay on Man; contributed to epistemology, cultural philosophy, and the history of ideas.
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1. The Problem Of Knowledge
An extended defense of a neo-Kantian view that knowledge is not a passive reflection of raw sensation but an active, culturally mediated process shaped by conceptual and symbolic forms. The work argues that language, myth, art, mathematics and science are distinct symbolic systems that organize experience and make it intelligible; tracing their historical development shows how objectivity and truth emerge through cultural frameworks rather than by direct apprehension of reality. It critiques naive empiricism and dogmatic rationalism and proposes that philosophical problems about knowledge are best addressed by analyzing the functions and structures of symbolic representation.
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