In an epoch when the sciences are repeatedly demanding that the humanities answer to their methodological rigor, Cassirer has the audacity to suggest that it is the sciences which must answer to the greater conceptual breadth of the humanities; that the way to unite the two modes of study is not through subjecting the study of man to exclusively causal explanations, but by opening up the study of nature to the consideration of formal properties.
Monday, April 06, 2015
Bridging a divide …
… The University Bookman: Studying Man and Making Man. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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