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In this article I examine the interpretation of Nicholas of Cusa’s thoughts proposed by Ernst Cassirer. In his historical and philosophical research on the philosophy of this medieval thinker, the disciple of Hermann Cohen and Paul Natorp combines, in a creative manner, cultural symbolism with epistemological foundations of neo-Kantianism of the Marburg school. His image of Cusanus is that of a person...
Followers of methodological antinaturalism in philosophy, who criticise the application of methods representing the natural sciences to other realms of knowledge, argue for the necessity to separate the humanities from the empirical instrumentarium of research. The exposed dualism of investigation process reveals differences between axiomatic and deductive explanation of arguments of formal sciences...
Cassirer thought that religion is one of the main fundamental rule of a human society and cultural order, mainly because it is able to guarantee moral laws being the main grounds of our civilization. But religion could not have been existed if it had not been preceded by mythical thinking. The myth is a real condition of religion. Religious interpretation is permeated by mythical metaphors, but the...
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