Concept of Reality
Ernst Cassirer (przeł. Przemysław Parszutowicz)
The essey The concept of Reality is a part of the first systematic work of Ernst Cassirer, the alumnus of the Marburg school, titled Substanzbegriff und Funktionsbegriff. Untersuchungen über Grundfragen der Erkenntniskritik (1910). It developed certain position concerning the problem of reality, which is representative for this school. This conception, and especially the shift of cognitive perspective, from substantial to functional, contained in it, is crucial as far as the whole later Cassirer’s work is concerned and it comes as the foundation for the subsequent theory of symbolic forms.
Keywords: Cassirer · reality · Marburg School · transcendentalism · theory of knowledge
Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945) – German philosopher (aft er 1939 citizen of Sweden). Representative of Neokantian Marburg School. Historian of philosophy, theorist of knowledge and science, culture and mythical thought. Founder of the original theory of symbolic forms. Author of (inter alia): Substanzbegriff und Funktionsbegriff; Philosophie der symbolischen Formen (4 volumes.); Das Erkenntnisproblem in der Philosophie und Wissenschaft der neueren Zeit (4 volumes.); Kants Leben und Lehre; Determinismus und Indeterminismus in der modernen Physik; An Essay on man; Myth of the State.
Przemysław Parszutowicz — Professor at Department of History of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. His current research interests include history and theory of transcendental philosophy. Author of books: Filozofia jako krytyka poznania. Wprowadzenie do transcendentalizmu Ernsta Cassirera [Philosophy as Critique of knowledge. Introduction to Ernst Cassirer's Transcendentalism] (Warsaw 2013); Fenomenologia form symbolicznych. Podstawowe pojecia i inspiracje „późnej” filozofii Ernsta Cassirera [Phenomenology of Symbolic Forms. Basic Concepts and Inspirations of Ernst Cassirer's „late” Philosophy] (Warsaw 2013).
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