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I've been long interested in a history of mind. There is much I've picked up along the way on the evolutionary lead up to man; I placed much heightened scrutiny on some of the keys. I wanted this 3v set for a very long time but only bought them a few years ago. Since then I've slowly sunk into them, trying to work out the meanings of some terms & so forth. Finally I feel fairly comfortable with the work. I continue to review and study them.
Afew years back there was almost nothing on the web about C but it's beginning to fill out a little.
I came across a wee tidbit that is very important to really "getting" C. He said that his work really built on Hegel! That the problem with H is that he started too high, that one needed to get to the levels under H to build up to H's system... down to the origins and development of Mind. Among the approaches are child development,anthropology, archaeology, biological developments, game of survival systems & etc. Thankfully I cracked Hegel not too long ago. Together they represent a very grand scheme indeed.
Fortuitously I have been working over Sister Miriam Joseph's, "Trivium" for awhile too... and, she get's underneath logic to tether it to language...esp Grammar, in very important ways. So several takes on language and well developed, though simple, systematic logic. All this has opened up some incidental insights into scholasticism, empiricism, and humanism as divergent ontological/epistemological systems...on several levels.

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Add a compendium on learning theory and another on ego-defense mechanisms, a dash of GS Brown's, "Laws of Form"
(I only "got" a couple of his most basic concepts, unfortunately), Aristotle (of course) and I think I several years of work have leading to a rather firm fundamental "ground" and method. If only I were better at maths...
Cassirer is deep, and eclectic. He knows his 18&19c philosophers very well. There are stories of his early studies under Cohen at Marburg that paint a young intellectual giant, preffering study to anything else yet well liked and generously helpful to those whom he could help. He synthesizes vast source work around the idea that mind is a cultural work of art. He fellout of favour,but maybe that's just the way of these things. There are stories that he had a shockingly good memory for recitations. He sounds like strange and wonderful young man.
Next I need to track down who he has been a major influence upon. I suspect E.Burke, U. Ecco, Lacan and a few others.
More later. thanks for reading...