古往今来,哲学家们一直在探讨“人是什么,即人的本质是什么”这一最基本的哲学问题。在《人论》中,卡西尔总结了西方思想史上关于人的问题的各种哲学理论,并从一个全新的视角出发,论述了人的本质:人是符号的动物,是能利用符号去创造文化的动物,人的本质是劳作。符号哲学开辟了文化哲学和人学研究的新方向,对于我们深入了解人和人类文化有很大的引导作用。 Throughout the ages, philosophers have been exploring the most fundamental philosophical issue of “what is man, what is man’s nature?” In Renren’s Theory, Cassire summarized various philosophical theories on human issues in the history of western thought and discussed the essence of man from a completely new perspective: man is a symbolic animal, he can use symbols to go Cultural creation of animals, human nature is labor. Symbolic philosophy has opened up new directions in the study of cultural philosophy and human studies and has a great guiding role in our in-depth understanding of human and human cultures.