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Philosophy and Culture
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Freudenthal, G. The missing core of Cassirer’s philosophy: Homo Faber in abstracto (translated by T.S. Karachentsova).

Abstract: As the title of the article implies, Cassirer’s project has a philosophical and systematic (not only philosophical) meaning indeed. Secondly, Cassirer’s philosophy has a central principle and thirdly, this central principle is not well developed and does not apply to the cultural phenomena it was supposed to explain. Therefore, all Cassirer’s works represent a program of systematic epistemology of history in the fi rst place and the material which needs to be interpreted and explained by epistemology, on the other hand. Cassirer’s works have a certain order which suggests a progressive epistemological development but Cassirer has never applied the central principle of his epistemology – his interpretation of ‘symbol’ – to demonstrate and explain this epistemological development.


Keywords:

philosophy, critical idealism, empiricism, substances and functions, designing, symbolic form, constructive philosophy of culture, synthesis, system and history, principle of development, symbolic function of technology


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