Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture

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Summary: The Next Step after Language & Myth
Review: If you have read & enjoyed Ernst Cassirer's smaller to the point book "Language & Myth", this is the Next Step! "Essay on Man" is the fuller more advance version, with greater philosophical & historical detail than the pervious gem of a book. Don't worry, it's still easy to read. Maybe a little harder to read than Karl Jasper, but this is not Hegel's Outer Limits of personal idealist words. The most important historical highlights of human expression in language is written with clear insight that only Ernst Cassirer can do. I would consider this Ernst Cassirer's intermediate book with the classic "Philosophy of Symbolic Forms" being his Opus. If I may suggest: start with "Language & Myth", than "Essay on Man", & finish with "Philosophy of Symbolic Forms".

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Summary: man obedient to the society
Review: man have the obligated to respect all the right by the state and commmunity he live in. there are some man who think that they have the right to their follow human body.

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Summary: Unifies all the different embodiment of human culture.
Review: This is by far the best philosophy of human culture. It unifies art, myth, religion, language, history and sciences in a coherent organism. Under the concept of the symbol Cassier brings toghether embodiments of culture that have been thought to be opposite (such as myth and religion). His theory of art is especially sharp and enlighting. A must read for any student of social sciences or philosphy. One of the best systems of human culture. Down the earth, not like many other systems.