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| Ernst Cassirer: Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945) was a German philosopher. His major works include "The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms" trilogy, exploring the nature of human thought and culture. Cassirer also wrote on the philosophy of language, science, and Enlightenment thought. _____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Paul Ricoeur on Cassirer - Dictionary of Arguments
I 22 Cassirer, Ernst/Symbol/Ricoeur: in his philosophy of symbolic forms he was inspired by Kant's philosophy, his declared aim being to go beyond the all too narrow framework of the transcendental method, which is limited to the criticism of the principles of Newtonian philosophy, and to explore all synthetic activities and all the areas of objectification corresponding to them. RicoeurVsCassirer: but is it legitimate to call these different "forms" of synthesis, in which the object depends on the function, these " abilities" (Vermögen) each of which produces and sets a world, symbolic? Per Cassirer: he was the first to ask the question of the regression of the language. Symbolic Form/Cassirer/Ricoeur: the term delimits, even before it represents an answer, a question: that of the arrangement of all "mediating functions" into a single function, which Cassirer calls "the symbolic". Def The Symbolic/Cassirer/Ricoeur: the symbolic denotes the common denominator of all ways of objectifying reality, of giving it meaning. The symbolic seeks above all to express the non-immediateness of our knowledge of reality. I 23 RicoeurVsCassirer: the Kantian transcendentalism (...) harms the work of description and classification of symbolic forms. The problem is that of the unity of language and the interweaving of its multiple functions in a single realm of speech. >Symbol/Ricoeur, >Sense/Ricoeur, >Interpretation/Ricoeur. Ricoeur: this problem seems to me to be better characterized by the term sign (...). >Symbol/Cassirer, >Sign/Ricoeur. RicoeurVsCassirer: What (...) is at stake is the specificity of the hermeneutical problem. By uniting all the functions of mediation under the title "symbolic", Cassirer gives this concept as much scope as he does the concept of reality on the one hand and culture on the other. [The fundamental difference disappeares]: that between unambiguous expressions and ambiguous expressions. >Sense/Ricoeur._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Ricoeur I Paul Ricoeur De L’interprétation. Essai sur Sigmund Freud German Edition: Die Interpretation. Ein Versuch über Freud Frankfurt/M. 1999 Ricoeur II Paul Ricoeur Interpretation theory: discourse and the surplus of meaning Fort Worth 1976 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-19