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Origin and Spontaneity A Comment

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As a preface to some comments on the philosophical position of the Marburg School, with special emphasis on Hermann Cohen — following the analysis presented by Professor Funkenstein — two topics of an historical and typological character should be briefly discussed.

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  1. Hermann Cohen, Logik der reinen Erkenntnis( Hildesheim/New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1977 ), p. 436.

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  2. Ibid., pp. 1 Iff.

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  3. Ibid., p. 329.

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  4. Hermann Cohen, Der Begriff der Religion im System der Philosophie (Giessen: Alfred Töpelmann), pp. 28–29.

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  5. Ibid., p. 5.

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  6. Paul Natorp, Hermann Cohens philosophische Leistung (Reuther & Reichard, 1918), sums up Cohen’s attitude to Kant.

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  7. Hermann Cohen, Logik der reinen Erkenntnis (see note 1), p. 480.

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  8. Ibid., p. 150.

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  9. Ibid., p. 35.

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  10. Ibid., p. 36.

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  11. Ibid.

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  12. Ibid., p. 53.

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  13. Ibid., p. 35.

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  14. Ibid, p. 44.

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  15. Ibid., p. 85.

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  16. Ibid., pp. 91-92.

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  17. Philosophie der Symbolischen Formen, Erster Teil (Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1923), p. 29.

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  18. Ibid., p. 51. Relevant observations as to the difference between Cassirer and Cohen are to be found in Wolfgang Marx “Cassirers Symboltheorie als Entwicklung und Kritik der Neukantischen Grundlagen einer Theorie des Denkens und Erkennens,” 2. Teil, in: Archiv fürGeschichte der Philosophie (1975), Heft 3, pp. 304 ff.

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  19. Hermann Cohen, Das Princip der Infinitesimal-Methode und seine Geschichte, Ein Kapitel zur Grundlegung der Erkenntniskritik( Berlin: Frd. Dummler, 1883 ), p. 127.

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Edna Ullmann-Margalit

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Rotenstreich, N. (1986). Origin and Spontaneity A Comment. In: Ullmann-Margalit, E. (eds) The Kaleidoscope of Science. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 94. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5496-0_6

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