Organic Harmony and Ernst Cassirer’s Pluralism

IF 0.3 3区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY IDEALISTIC STUDIES Pub Date : 2019-11-01 DOI:10.5840/idstudies20191023105
Shuchen Xiang
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This article argues that Cassirer’s thinking about the relationship between the different symbolic forms is best elucidated via the paradigm of “organic harmony.” Although Cassirer did not use the term himself, the harmonious cooperation between the parts found in the organic world provided him with a welcome alternative to traditional accounts of order (i.e., identity or hierarchy). This article gives three examples of “organic harmony” from which Cassirer drew inspiration: Goethe’s idealistic morphology, Wilhelm von Humboldt’s account of language, and Herder’s account of history. Through “organic harmony” we can make better sense of and better articulate the pluralism of Cassirer’s PSF. Finally, this article shows how the motif of organic harmony is the normative moment in Cassirer’s own challenge to twentieth-century fascism and argues that the Cassirerian emphasis on finding a coherence which does justice to the uniqueness of particulars—harmony—is an ethical injunction relevant for our times.
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有机和谐与卡西尔的多元主义
本文认为,卡西尔对不同象征形式之间关系的思考最好通过“有机和谐”的范式来阐明。尽管卡西尔自己没有使用这个词,但有机世界中各部分之间的和谐合作为他提供了一个受欢迎的替代传统秩序(即身份或等级)的方法。本文列举了三个“有机和谐”的例子,卡西尔从中获得了灵感:歌德的理想主义形态,威廉·冯·洪堡对语言的描述,以及赫尔德对历史的描述。通过“有机和谐”,我们可以更好地理解和表达卡西尔PSF的多元化。最后,本文展示了有机和谐的主题是卡西尔自己对20世纪法西斯主义的挑战中的规范时刻,并认为卡西尔强调寻找一种公正对待细节独特性的连贯性——和谐——是一种与我们时代相关的伦理禁令。
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期刊介绍: Idealistic Studies provides a peer-reviewed forum for the discussion of themes and topics that relate to the tradition and legacy of philosophical Idealism. Established in 1971 as a vehicle for American Personalism and post-Kantian Idealism, the journal"s purview now includes historically earlier expressions, as well as the inheritance of that past in the developments of late 19th to mid-20th century philosophy. The journal has also become a venue for a number of philosophical movements that share Idealism in their genealogies, including Phenomenology, Neo-Kantianism, Historicism, Hermeneutics, Life Philosophy, Existentialism, and Pragmatism.
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