卡西尔与文化哲学的进路

Cassirer and the Approach to Philosophy of Culture

卡西尔是新康德主义的殿军,他的思想仍未偏离康德哲学的重心——人的问题,他通过创造性地思考和解答康德提出的问题,把"回到康德去"这一目标推进到了一个新层次。卡西尔把康德的先验图式转化为对符号的劳作,赋予先验图式以存在论的意义,从而把人类的自我认识看做理解和阐释人类"创造物"的构造原理,揭示人类的精神形式的过程。洞察神话、宗教、艺术、科学的思维和表达形式,探究其中隐藏着的人类精神得以统摄的法则是文化哲学的任务。

Cassirer is the last important philosopher of neo-Kantianism confronted with the problem of human,which is the core of Kant’s thoughts.His creative thinking of and answer to the question posed by Kant promotes the aim of ＂going back to Kant＂ to a higher level.Cassirer transforms Kant’s transcendental schema into the work of symbols and endows it with ontological sense,thus the self-knowing of man could be seen as the process of discovering the spiritual forms through understanding and explicating principles in the creatures of human being.The aim of philosophy of culture is to have insight into the modes,formulas and rules hidden in myth,religion,art and science.