Ernst Cassirer

ERNST CASSIRER

The Myth of the State. "God is a person - and that means a will. No mere logical methods of arguing and reasoning can make us understand this will. . . It is from God himself, from the revelation of his will, not from dialectic, that man has to learn good and evil."^1a RUSSELL

" . . . [A]ccording to [Hegel] . . . 'Men are as foolish as to forget . . . in their enthusiasm for liberty of conscience and political freedom, the truth which lies in power.' These words . . . contain the clearest and most ruthless program of fascism that has ever been propounded . . . "^1b HEGEL POPPER


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The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. " . . . [T]he scientific value of a formula consists not only in its summing up of given empirical facts but in its power . . . to call forth new facts. The formula states relationships, connections, series which far outdistance direct observation. It becomes one of the most outstanding instruments of what Leibniz called the 'logic of discovery,' the logica inventionis."^2a

"The true standard for the evaluation of a physical hypothesis . . . can never be sought in its intuitive reference but only in its efficacy. It is not the simplicity of the image that is decisive, but the unity of the explanation, the subsumption of the totality of natural phenomena under supreme comprehensive rules."^2b

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The Philosophy of the Enlightenment.

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An Essay on Man.

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* Italics in the original.

¹ Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945). The Myth of the State. Yale University Press, 1946. Henry Cassirer and Anne Applebaum, 1974. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
^a The Religious and Metaphysical Background of the Medieval Theory of the State, at 82.
^b Hegel's Theory of the State, 267.

² Ernst Cassirer. The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. Volume 3: The Phenomenology of Knowledge. Translated by Ralph Manheim. Introductory Note by Charles W. Hendel. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1957, 1985.
^a The Foundations of Scientific Knowledge, at 440.
^b The Foundations of Scientific Knowledge, at 463.