Resilience from the perspective of the theory of symbolic forms

Abstract

Every time has its language and every language has its time and every language and every time have their own form of being. Plato was the first to recognise the problem as such, the problem that the individual being that exists is not to be understood merely by its constitution and structure but by the concept and the meaning of the concept of that being-according to Ernst Cassirer in the first of his three volumes on Philosophie der symbolischen Formen (1953). This is no less true of scientific concepts as he argues: “The fundamental concepts of every science, the means by which the science poses its questions and formulates its solutions, no longer appear as passive representations of a given being, but as self-created intellectual symbols”.