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Ernst Cassirer was a German philosopher who lived from 1874 to 1945 and made significant contributions to philosophy during the early-to-mid twentieth century. His work matters because he developed influential theories about how humans use symbols and language to understand the world, ideas that shaped modern philosophy and intellectual thought.
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- july 28, 1874
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- April 131945
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- 163
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- Zur Einsteinschen Relativitätstheorie
- Psychologie du langage
- Antropologia filosofica
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Ernst Alfred Cassirer (/kɑːˈsɪərər, kəˈ-/ kah-SEER-ər, kə-; German: [ˈɛʁnst kaˈsiːʁɐ]; July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German philosopher and historian of philosophy. Trained within the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism, 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 the "logic and psychology of thought" into a more general "logic of the cultural sciences". Cassirer was one of the leading 20th-century advocates of philosophical idealism. His most famous work is the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (1923–1929).
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