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    Ernst Cassirer

    Ernst Cassirer

    modernNeo-Kantianism

    1874 – 1945

    Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945) was a German philosopher best known for his philosophy of symbolic forms, which analyzed how myth, language, art, science, and religion function as distinct modes of symbolic meaning-making. A leading figure of the Marburg School of neo-Kantianism, he extended Kant's critique of reason into a broader critique of culture and famously debated Martin Heidegger at Davos in 1929.

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    Notable Achievements

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    Developed the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (3 volumes, 1923-1929)

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    Debated Martin Heidegger at Davos in 1929 on the legacy of Kant

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    Authored 'An Essay on Man' (1944) synthesizing his philosophical anthropology

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    Advanced neo-Kantian interpretation of scientific and cultural knowledge

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    Wrote 'The Myth of the State' (1946) analyzing political myth and totalitarianism

    Positions & Arguments

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    Skepticism

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    Reichenbach was not able to recognize the Weyl method as other than an equivalent account of empirical determination of the metric

    Truth & Knowledge

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    Reichenbach was not able to recognize the Weyl method as other than an equivalent account of empirical determination of the metric

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    Metric geometry is neither true nor false.

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    We can rationally believe both ourselves and God to be mental in nature from a practical point of view.

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    Metric geometry is neither true nor false.

    Natural Theology

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    We can rationally believe both ourselves and God to be mental in nature from a practical point of view.

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