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Ernst Cassirer

1874 - 1945

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Ernst Alfred Cassirer ( kah-SEER-ər, kə-; German: [ˈɛʁnst kaˈsiːʁɐ]; July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German philosopher and historian of philosophy. Trained within the Neo-Kantian Marburg School, he initially followed his mentor Hermann Cohen in attempting to supply an idealistic philosophy of science. After Cohen's death in 1918, Cassirer developed a theory of symbolism and used it to expand the "logic and psychology of thought" into a more general "logic of the cultural sciences". Cassirer was one of the leading 20th-century advocates of philosophical idealism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ernst Cassirer is the 169th most popular philosopher (down from 129th in 2019), the 57th most popular biography from Poland (down from 29th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Polish Philosopher.

Ernst Cassirer is most famous for his philosophy of symbolic forms. He believes that there are three stages of human thought, the mythical, the classical, and the modern. The mythical stage is characterized by the idea that things are alive and have a soul. The classical stage is characterized by the idea that things are inanimate and don't have a soul. The modern stage is characterized by the idea that things are made of atoms and molecules and have no soul.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Ernst Cassirer ranks 169 out of 1,267. Before him are Paul Ricœur, Herbert Marcuse, Athanasius Kircher, Melissus of Samos, Ferdinand Tönnies, and Adi Shankara. After him are Jiddu Krishnamurti, Xun Kuang, Jakob Böhme, Thomas Reid, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Posidonius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Ernst Cassirer ranks 11. Before him are Arnold Schoenberg, Harry Houdini, Herbert Hoover, Howard Carter, Johannes Stark, and Max Scheler. After him are Sunjong of Korea, Chaim Weizmann, Edward Thorndike, Carl Bosch, John D. Rockefeller Jr., and Lou Henry Hoover. Among people deceased in 1945, Ernst Cassirer ranks 23. Before him are Francis William Aston, Wilhelm Canaris, George S. Patton, Irma Grese, Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, and Clara Petacci. After him are Pietro Mascagni, Heinrich Müller, Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, Paul Valéry, Pierre Laval, and Johan Huizinga.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Ernst Cassirer ranks 57 out of 1,694. Before him are Kurt Lewin (1890), Hans-Ulrich Rudel (1916), Emanuel Lasker (1868), Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen (1895), Donald Tusk (1957), and Billy Wilder (1906). After him are Jakob Böhme (1575), Sigismund I the Old (1467), Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941), Maximilian Kolbe (1894), Władysław III of Poland (1424), and Ferdinand Lassalle (1825).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Poland

Among philosophers born in Poland, Ernst Cassirer ranks 5. Before him are Arthur Schopenhauer (1788), Johann Gottfried Herder (1744), Zygmunt Bauman (1925), and Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768). After him are Jakob Böhme (1575), Christian Wolff (1679), Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512), Alfred Tarski (1901), Günther Anders (1902), Heinrich Rickert (1863), and Paul Tillich (1886).

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