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(5 pp) Philosophers are always asking themselves
questions. What a philosopher is trying to do,
is figure out the way in which people understand
the world, or their sense and place of reality in
the world. The German philosopher, Ernst Cassirer
(1874- 1945) felt that we use mentally created
symbols to understand our current reality. It was
Cassirer's idea that scientific laws, theories of
religion and the unique qualities of a given
language were all symbols, which we as humans
create to facilitate understanding the world.
The logic of understanding then is to give some
sense of order in the chaos of the world that we
face on a daily basis.
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understand our current reality. It was Cassirers idea that scientific laws, theories of religion and the unique qualities of a given language were all symbols, which we as humans
create to facilitate understanding the world. The logic of understanding then is to give some sense of order in the chaos of the world that we face on a
daily basis. BBcassir.doc ERNST CASSIRER: Language and Myth (1946) Written by B. Bryan Babcock for the Paperstore,
Inc., March 2001 Introduction Philosophers are always asking themselves questions. What a philosopher is trying to do, is figure out the way in which people understand the world,
or their sense and place of reality in the world. The German philosopher, Ernst Cassirer (1874- 1945) felt that we use mentally created symbols to understand our current reality.
It was Cassirers idea that scientific laws, theories of religion and the unique qualities of a given language were all symbols, which we as humans create to facilitate understanding
the world. The logic of understanding then is to give some sense of order in the chaos of the world that we face on a daily basis. Myth and
Language (1946) According to Cassirer, "myth, art, language and science appear as symbols. . . in the sense of forces, each of which produces and posits a world of its
own" (8). What we can glean from this statement is that these symbols are energetic, or dynamic. Only an entity, which is "active," will have a "sense of
force." These symbols do not develop from language, but we might say that language "activates" them. Cassirer phrases it that "language itself is what initiates such articulations and
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