Funktionsbegriff and Freiheitsbegriff. On the Actuality and Self-Knowledge of Reason

H. PRINGE

Critical Studies in German Idealism

Brill

Lugar: Leiden; Año: 2021 vol. 29 p. 174 - 187

1878-9986

In this paper I consider Cassirer´s functional theory of the concept as a doctrine which may provide an account of the comprehensibility of nature alternative to both the Kantian and the Hegelian idealism. Cassirer argues that critical philosophy, understood from his neo-Kantian viewpoint, is not reached by the Hegelian criticism and at the same time avoids certain difficulties that can be found in Hegel´s doctrine. On this basis, Cassirer´s idealism provides its own account of the actuality and self-knowledge of an autonomous reason.