id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5577 Ernst Cassirer - Wikipedia .html text/html 3646 589 55 Born in Breslau in Silesia (modern-day southwest Poland), into a Jewish family, Cassirer studied literature and philosophy at the University of Marburg (where he completed his doctoral work in 1899 with a dissertation on René Descartes's analysis of mathematical and natural scientific knowledge entitled Descartes' Kritik der mathematischen und naturwissenschaftlichen Erkenntnis [Descartes' Critique of Mathematical and Scientific Knowledge]) and at the University of Berlin (where he completed his habilitation in 1906 with the dissertation Das Erkenntnisproblem in der Philosophie und Wissenschaft der neueren Zeit: Erster Band [The Problem of Knowledge in Philosophy and Science in the Modern Age: Volume I]).[6] "Cassirer as a thinker became an embodiment of Kantian principles, but also of much more, of an overall movement of spirit stretching from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, and on to Herder's conception of history, Goethe's poetry, Wilhelm von Humboldt's study of the Kavi language, Schelling's Philosophie Der Mythologie, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, and Vischer's conception of the aesthetic symbol, among many others. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5577.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5577.txt