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Ernst Cassirer (German: [kaˈsiːʁɐ]; July 28 1874 – April 13 1945) was a German philosopher. Trained within the Neo-Kantian Marburg School he initially followed his mentor Hermann Cohen in attempting to supply an idealistic philosophy of science; after Cohen’s death he developed a theory of symbolism and used it to expand phenomenology of knowledge into a more general philosophy of culture. He is one of the leading 20th century advocates of philosophical idealism.

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birth date
1874-07-28
birth place
Poland, Wrocław, Kingdom of Prussia, Province of Silesia
death date
1945-04-13
death place
New York City, United States, New York
era
20th-century philosophy
influenced
Wilbur Marshall Urban, Susanne Langer, Leo Strauss
influenced by
Immanuel Kant, Hermann Cohen, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
philosophicalSchool
Neo-Kantianism
region
Western philosophy

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