Ernst Cassirer

"De a befejezett mű, ha egyszer előttük áll, soha nem csak beteljesedés, hanem egyúttal csalódás is. Elmarad az eredeti intuíciótól, amelyből született. A korlátozott valóság, amelyben fennáll, ellentmond a lehetőségek bőségének, amelyeket ez az intuíció ideálisan magában...

Preface by Charles W. Hendel It was thirty years ago that the first translation into English of any of the works of Ernst Cassirer appeared—5«teanirf and Function (by William Curtis Swabey and Mary Collins Swabey, Chicago and London, Open Court Publishing Co., 1923). Nothing followed unül...

Ungvári Tamás könyvtárából. This thought-provoking classic investigates how the Renaissance spirit fundamentally questioned and undermined medieval thought. Of value to students of literature, political theory, history of religious and Reformation thought, and the history of science.

PREFACE The investigations contained in this volume were first prompted by studies in the philosophy of mathematics. In the course of an attempt to comprehend the fundamental conceptions of mathematics from the point of view of logic, it became necessary to analyse more closely the function of...