Ernst Cassirer

Ernst Cassirer
Ernst Cassirer
Born	28 Julie 1874; Breslau, Silesie, Proushie; (nou Wrocław, Poland)
Dee'd	13 Apryle 1945 (aged 70); New York Ceety, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	Varsity o Marburg; (Dr.phil., 1899); Varsity o Berlin; (Dr.phil.habil., 1906)
Era	20t-century filosofie
Region	Wastren Filosofie
Schuil	Neo-Kantianism
Notable ideas	Filosofie o symbolic forms; Ontic structural realism
	Influences Immanuel Kant, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Hermann Cohen, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling;
	Influenced Leo Strauss, Wilbur Marshall Urban, Susanne Langer;

Ernst Cassirer (German: [kaˈsiːʁɐ]; Julie 28, 1874 – Aprile 13, 1945) wis a German philosopher. Trained within the Neo-Kantian Marburg Schuil, he ineetially follaed his mentor Hermann Cohen in attemptin tae supply an idealistic filosofie o science; efter Cohen's daith, he developed a theory o seembolism, an uised it tae expand phenomenology o knawledge intae a mair general filosofie o cultur. He is ane o the leadin 20t century advocates o filosofical idealism.

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