From Language to Symbols——On the Kant-Humboldt Element in Cassirer's Philosophy
The issue of Cassirer's inheritance and transcendence of the Neo-Kantian tradition is a crucial aspect of Cassirer studies.However,this issue to be sorted out in the dimension of conceptual history.Hamann,Herder,and Humboldt criticized the absence of language in Kant's philosophy,emphasizing the sig-nificance of language for the human spirit.Humboldt's philosophy of language is a concrete realization of Kan-tian ideational principles in the science of spirit.Cassirer highly valued Humboldt's adherence to and applica-tion of Kant's transcendental method,building his own philosophy of symbolic forms based on this principle.He discovered the potential for extending and transcending Kant's philosophy through Humboldt's philoso-phy of language,leading him to apply the transcendental method beyond language to other cultural forms,thereby shifting from rational critique to cultural critique.In this sense,Cassirer continues and develops the Kant-Humboldt tradition within German idealism.
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