语言:人类文化创造的总体维度——卡西尔语言哲学研究

Language:the Total Dimension of Human's Cultural Creation——on Ernst Cassirer's Philosophy of Language

卡西尔语言哲学的根本特色在于,它既体现了现代西方哲学的一般趋势,又具有较强的欧陆传统哲学的特征。他主张,从感觉、直觉到概念的发展过程,就是语言从实体到功能、从直接到间接、从个别到一般、从具体到抽象的不断发展过程,象征着人的文化创造性的不断成长。他将语言作为人类文化创造的总体性维度,通过对语言的内在结构和发展进程的文化哲学分析,彰显了语言在人类文化中的独特地位,揭示了人类特有的精神本质和能力。

The ultimate trait of the Cassirer＇ s philosophy of language is that it not only embodies the general tendency of modern western philosophy, but also has the characteristic of traditional philosophy of Europe strongly to some extent. Cassirer claims that the process of the development from sense and intuition to conception is also that of language from substance to function, from direct to indirect, from individual to universal, from special to abstract, which signifies the endless growth of human＇ s cultural creativity. Cassirer exposes the peculiar status of language in human＇ s culture and human＇ s particular nature and capacity by regarding language as the total dimension of hu- man＇ s cultural creation and analyzing culture - philosophically the inner structure and development of language.