Philosophical foundations for a pedagogy of culture
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The general objective of this paper is to elaborate a pedagogical reading of Ernst Cassirer’s
Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, focusing on the Phenomenology of Knowledge where the author details
that the foundations adduced by Paul Natorp, in Introduction to Psychology constitute a critical view
of psychology as the foundation of intellectual operations. In general, there are three results to be
shown: first, it will be shown that this recovery of the Natorpian vision allows Cassirer to maintain
that all cultural activity (language, mythology, art, science, etc.) has as its foundation the psychological
activities of the subject, which implies that all symbolic formation is both an intellectual product of
the individual and a cultural activity. Second, it will be shown that part of the development of a
critical psychology, in accordance with Natorp’s general plan, is the need for a theory of formation
that explains how the cultural environment shapes the intellectual activities of the subject, a general
thesis assumed by Cassirer for the development of his theory of the symbol. Finally, it will be noted
that the cultural formative agents considered by Natorp for the formation of the individual (state,
art and religion, mainly) constitute the theoretical bases of culture on which the student will later
develop his theory of language, myth/religion, art and science as cultural formations.
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