Cassirer Language Viewpoint

Since the birth of philosophy, the problem of language has long been plagued byphilosophers of the riddle of the sphinx, though the ancient sages have devoted theirlives trying to solve this puzzle, but all in vain. Traditional philosophy regardedlanguage as a substance to explore and therefore the language as possible a hinder theunderstanding of fog. Until the linguistic turn of philosophy, the language problem isto be seen as a philosophical problem itself, language has been put in the first place ofphilosophy, more and more brought to the attention of the philosophers. But for thelanguage is presented to resolve the problem of two roads, a road is analyticalphilosophy, they pursue the meaning of language accuracy, thus argues that with themethod of logical thinking to make scientific language. Another road is Europeanhumanistic philosophy; they highlight the ontology of language status, go to greatlengths to try to eliminate the logic function of the language, the language from thelogical rules under the oppression of liberation. But you should see these in the lasttwo roads haven’t been able to really solve the language the riddle of the sphinx.In Cassirer’s view we should solve the mystery of language like Oedipus themethod to solve the riddle of the sphinx use: know yourself. So Cassirer was a matterof conscience to accept the theory of Kant’s Copernicus revolution, think about thelanguage issue also needs to investigate from man’s subjective initiative.By criticizing traditional philosophy, Cassirer recognize the traditionalphilosophy is unable to solve the problem of language, its main reason is that thelanguage as an objective or subjective substance to know, so that the existence oflanguage became homeless. In critically inherited Kant’s transcendental principle andheld and Humboldt in the important thought of language philosophy, cassirer putsforward the language must be a kind of functional unification, and can’t be a unifiedsubstantive, and discusses the relevant concepts related to the nature of language, suchas: there is a problem, the concept and expression form of perception.Cassirer after the difference between the language logic and traditional logic is different, and thelanguage of metaphorical thinking are expounded, then the language liberated fromthe bondage of traditional logic. Cassirer also explores the language using the methodof phenomenology source out of the experience of the world, so as to reveal therelationship between man and the world the most original feature.Cassirer thought only to such an exploration of language problems, we cananswer the unity of language problems, can the philosophical about existence andphenomenon, the main body and object of the binary find a way to solve the discreteproblem, only by language can we truly reveal the characteristic of the human spiritessence, only by language can also reveal the relationship between man and the worldthe Source feature.This paper is carried out in accordance with the Cassirer the philosophy theory toexplore. Because the Cassirer’s philosophies of language for the traditionalmetaphysics and essentialism criticism, as well as the barriers of language to break thetraditional logic, overcome the thought of the division between subject and object, etc.,for the contemporary of linguistic turn of philosophy provides an importanttheoretical idea.