Breslau, Prussia, German Empire (now Wrocław, Poland)
Died
April 13, 1945(1945-04-13) (aged 70)
New York City, U.S.
Education
University of Marburg (PhD, 1899) University of Berlin (Dr. phil. habil., 1906)
Era
20th-century philosophy
Region
Western philosophy
School
Neo-Kantianism (Marburg School) Phenomenology
Theses
Descartes' Kritik der mathematischen und naturwissenschaftlichen Erkenntnis (Descartes' Critique of Mathematical and Scientific Knowledge) (1899)
Das Erkenntnisproblem in der Philosophie und Wissenschaft der neueren Zeit: Erster Band (The Problem of Knowledge in Philosophy and Science in the Modern Age: Volume I) (1906)
Academic advisors
Hermann Cohen Paul Natorp
Main interests
Epistemology, aesthetics
Notable ideas
Philosophy of symbolic forms Animal symbolicum
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Ernst Alfred Cassirer (/kɑːˈsɪərər,kəˈ-/kah-SEER-ər, kə-,[1]German:[ˈɛʁnstkaˈsiːʁɐ];[2][3] July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) 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 in 1918, Cassirer developed a theory of symbolism and used it to expand phenomenology of knowledge into a more general philosophy of culture. Cassirer was one of the leading 20th-century advocates of philosophical idealism. His most famous work is the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (1923–1929).
Though his work received a mixed reception shortly after his death, more recent scholarship has remarked upon Cassirer's role as a strident defender of the moral idealism of the Enlightenment era and the cause of liberal democracy at a time when the rise of fascism had made such advocacy unfashionable. Within the international Jewish community, Cassirer's work has additionally been seen as part of a long tradition of thought on ethical philosophy.[4]
^"Cassirer". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
^"Duden | Ernst | Rechtschreibung, Bedeutung, Definition". Duden (in German). Retrieved 20 October 2018. Ẹrnst
^"Duden | Cassirer | Rechtschreibung, Bedeutung, Definition". Duden (in German). Retrieved 20 October 2018. Cassirer
^Gordon, Peter E. (8 September 2009). "(Book 1) Ernst Cassirer: The Last Philosopher of Culture; (Book 2) The Symbolic Construction of Reality: The Legacy of Ernst Cassirer". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
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