Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 38 No. 2, 2018.
Review article
https://doi.org/10.21464/fi38209
The Affirmation of Humane by Symbolic Forms. Cassirer on Language and Science
Hasnija Ilazi
orcid.org/0000-0001-9514-0441
; Universiteti i Prishtines, Fahulteti Filozofik, Rr. Eqrem Qabej 21, XK-10000 Priština
Abstract
In his philosophy of culture, Cassirer refused to understand the human being as homo faber, and he partially accepted to understand the human being as animal rationale. The essence of the human being is composed of his creational acts, and he is creating culture by the way of symbolic forms. The paper will present Cassirer's theory of symbols as the basis for differentiating human nature from the nature of other living beings, and the base of human existence as the communication in the social surrounding. The human being as a symbolic animal will be elaborated through a relation between language and science, as well as tradition and innovation in the dynamic process of creating culture. Because the paper is presenting an anthropological review of the rule of the symbol in confirming the essence of human being, the goal was to point at the (lack of) rational mechanisms of symbols for manifesting the irrational human nature.
Keywords
culture; symbolic forms; language; science; human
Hrčak ID:
211801
URI
Publication date:
9.7.2018.
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