Abstract
Kant’s conception of the constructive role of the human mind in experience is widely recognized as one of the historical sources of the various theories of symbolism which have been developed in the twentieth century, such as Ernst Cassirer’s “philosophy of symbolic forms.” Professor Charles W. Hendel has pointed specifically to the close relation of Cassirer’s “symbol” to Kant’s “schema.” In this light, I think it is interesting to note that Kant himself presented an explicit, but extremely brief, account of the nature of symbolism, and that he distinguished sharply between a schema and a symbol. An examination of Kant’s theory of symbolism in the context of his philosophy would seem to be in order.
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