Abstract

CASSIRER AND EINSTEIN’S PHYSICS. THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL ADVANTAGE OF THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY The vast universe, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us as an eternal enigma, accessible only in part to our attention and our thinking, has never ceased to exercise his attraction on Einstein. The contemplation of universe led him to venture into the most mysterious sides of theoretical physics and to solve the most complex problems of classical physics. The paradox of theory of relativity consists precisely in the introduction of new absolute, which create a considerable epistemological advantage compared to the newtonian physics. The constancy of the speed of light becomes for Cassirer an ideal apriori, or rather a transcendental form of scientific thought, that revolutionizes the concepts of nature, measure, space and time and responds to the fundamental synthetic requirement of intellect, to his inevitable process of gathering and unifying the multiplicity of experience within the unity of the universal laws of science.