Heinz Cassirer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Heinz Cassirer

German philosopher

Date of Birth: 09-Aug-1903

Place of Birth: Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 20-Feb-1979

Profession: translator, philosopher, Bible translator

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Heinz Cassirer

  • Heinrich (Heinz) Walter Cassirer (9 August 1903 – 20 February 1979) was a Kantian philosopher, son of a famous German philosopher, Ernst Cassirer.
  • Being Jews, the Cassirer family fled the Nazis in the 1930s.
  • Heinz went to University of Glasgow working with Professor H.
  • J.
  • Paton, who persuaded him to write a book on Kant's third Critique, the Critique of Judgment.
  • Following Paton, he moved to Oxford, lecturing at Corpus Christi College. He was a noted scholar on the thought of Kant.
  • He thought highly of Karl Barth's understanding of Kant.
  • Cassirer, a "translator and interpret of Kant, is reliably reported to have asked, ‘Why is it that this Swiss theologian understands Kant far better than any philosopher I have come across?’" (Gunton 2002: xvi).
  • While at Glasgow, his observations of society in Scotland led him to speak of "'Highland ravings' - the obsessive clinging on to what is wholly illusory" (Weitzman 1997: 30). As a middle-aged adult, reading the New Testament for the first time, Cassirer was struck by the writings of St.
  • Paul in relation to ethics.
  • As he studied, he committed himself to the Christian faith and was baptized in the Anglican Church in 1955.
  • He produced a translation of the New Testament from the Greek sources, titled God's New Covenant: A New Testament Translation.
  • His translation is also noted for its formal language.
  • Below is a sample passage, Matthew 7:24-25. What, then, is the nature of the person, whoever he may be, who hears these words of mine and acts on them? He is like a man of prudence who built his house on a rock.
  • The rain descended, the floodwaters rose, the winds blew and hurled themselves against that house.
  • But it did not fall because it was on rock that its foundations were laid.

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