Cassirer: concepto sustancia y concepto función

Good evening. In this video, we're going to work with a text by Cassirer. If we take the title from the English translation, it would be "Substance and Function." The most appropriate title would be "The Concept as Substance and the Concept as Function," or "The Concept of Substance and the Concept of Function." This would be the most

suitable way to reflect what is being developed here. What he's going to present is the logic of the concept, and he's going to show two logical perspectives of the concept. That is to say, he's going to consider the concept from two logical perspectives. It's important to point out something that is very important to us:

the conception one has of the concept will affect the conception one has of both knowledge and ontology. This is why this text by Cassirer, for us, is linked in a very direct way to the texts and to what we saw in the unit regarding ontology. So, what are these two perspectives that he's going to present? On the one hand,

Aristotelian logic, and on the other hand, the one proposed by the Chancellor himself. Aristotelian logic—here we have to keep in mind that this logic is inseparable from... Metaphysics, that is to say, in Aristotle logic and metaphysics are perfectly articulated, and it is here that the concept of substance will be taken, which would be the

generic concept that we will also analyze here, and the other perspective that Cassirer proposes, which opposes this one of Aristotle, is the one that would be at the base of the construction of concepts. Well, let's begin then with the analysis that the author makes of the generic concept, which we say is basically the one