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From the Introduction to the First Edition of The Problem of Knowledge in Modern Philosophy and Science1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2008

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Modern thought would present only an incomplete and fragmentary picture of philosophy to us if we were to regard it as being completely disconnected from the elemental forces and sources of Greek philosophy. The corrective aspect that protects it from any such attempt at unmethodical isolation is, however, given within itself and in its own content. Its own inner progress necessarily leads it back to the principles and questions that distinguished Greek speculation, which it embodied in typical forms. The thought of the modern age proves its specificity in the fact that, notwithstanding the richness of content that it gains, it remains conscious of its relatedness to these basic logical forms and strives to return to them of its own accord. They will thus themselves appear to us of their own accord and incite us to regard their contents, if we just allow ourselves to follow the course of the investigation.

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Ernst Cassirer
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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From Cassirer 1906, Das Erkenntnisproblem in der Philosophie und Wissenschaft der neueren Zeit, pp. 20–50. Translated by Ashraf Noor.

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