卡西尔符号形式哲学的伦理观念

摘要

在政治神话研究中,卡西尔强调了人类文化活动的能动性特征,表达了人类积极参与文化生活的主体精神,这样一种精神同样是他在文化形式研究中所坚持的伦理观念.在卡西尔看来,只有将人定义为符号的动物,才能指明人的独特之处,才能理解对人开放的新路——通向文化之路.通过对蕴含在文化概念中的基本伦理问题的考察,卡西尔在符号形式中解答了人类劳作的最终归宿问题,即理性的自由.%In the study of political myth,Cassirer laid great emphasis on the dynamic characteristics of human cultural ac-tivities and expressed the active role of human spirit involving in cultural life;Such a spirit is also the ethical ideas he ad-hered to in the study of cultural forms.In Cassirer's view, only defining man as a symbolic animal, can we reveal the u-nique characteristics of human and understand the new road which is open to human—the road to culture.Through the in-vestigation of the basic ethical issues contained in the cultural concepts,Cassirer answers the ultimate question of human la-bor in symbolic form,namely,the freedom of reason.