PHILOSOPHER

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. 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 phenomenology of knowledge into a more general philosophy of culture. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernst Cassirer has received more than 479,421 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Ernst Cassirer is the 129th most popular philosopher (up from 155th in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Poland (up from 46th in 2019) and the 3rd 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 129 out of 1,267. Before him are John Venn, Ramon Llull, Bonaventure, Philo, Joseph Priestley, and Hans-Georg Gadamer. After him are Marsilio Ficino, Friedrich Fröbel, Swami Vivekananda, Isocrates, Zygmunt Bauman, and Baron d'Holbach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Ernst Cassirer ranks 9. Before him are Guglielmo Marconi, Harry Houdini, Arnold Schoenberg, Herbert Hoover, Howard Carter, and Chaim Weizmann. After him are Johannes Stark, Max Scheler, Edward Thorndike, Gertrude Stein, Alexander Kolchak, and António Egas Moniz. Among people deceased in 1945, Ernst Cassirer ranks 12. Before him are Joseph Goebbels, Eva Braun, Martin Bormann, Béla Bartók, Fedor von Bock, and Anton Webern. After him are Walter Model, Subhas Chandra Bose, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Magda Goebbels, Paul Valéry, and Heinrich Müller.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Ernst Cassirer ranks 29 out of 1,694. Before him are Janusz Korczak (1878), Lech Kaczyński (1949), Fedor von Bock (1880), Władysław IV Vasa (1595), Eric of Pomerania (1381), and Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902). After him are Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846), Zygmunt Bauman (1925), Yitzhak Shamir (1915), Sigismund II Augustus (1520), Günther von Kluge (1882), and Andrzej Wajda (1926).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Poland

Among philosophers born in Poland, Ernst Cassirer ranks 3. Before him are Arthur Schopenhauer (1788), and Johann Gottfried Herder (1744). After him are Zygmunt Bauman (1925), Christian Wolff (1679), Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768), Jakob Böhme (1575), Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512), Alfred Tarski (1901), Günther Anders (1902), Paul Tillich (1886), and Heinrich Rickert (1863).

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