cher possibilities so that not only the race but the individual human being can be more free and autonomous in creating more meaningful life. That is also the point of Cassirer's book. It would be difficult to imagine a human being reading this book and not emerging from it more excited about life, about his own life, and about his or her ability to envision and act on new, rich scenarios for the future.
Cassirer is trying to accomplish the creation of perceiving and imagining what human life can be. He wants to find some way to organize the facts of life. He wants to create a brand new way of seeing which does not merely examine and analyze the separate fields of human endeavor, but tries to show how, especially through symbols, the various fields are related:
A philosophy of culture begins with the assumption that the world of human culture is not a mere
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