An Essay on Man

Name: An Essay on Man
Author: Ernst Cassirer

by Ernst Cassirer

Humanistic philosophy on the essence of human nature and knowledge

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Ernst Cassirer

German Neo-Kantian philosopher whose Philosophy of Symbolic Forms examined how human beings create culture through language, myth, art, and science. An Essay on Man synthesized his philosophy of culture. He was one of the last great systematic philosophers in the Enlightenment tradition.

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