Schiller

From Geography

Ferdinand Canning Scott (F.C.S.) Schiller was born in 1864 in Altona (Germany). He was a philosopher and studied on the university of Oxford. He provided a cogent intoduction to the tradition of humanist thought: it insists that we take seriously the fact that the world is, to all intents and purposes, nothing but the sum of human experiences. But we have no access to this world, no capabillity for knowing about this world, other than through the resources of human minds. This is why we are always both 'barrier' between 'external reality' and our comprehension of that reality, and besides that a 'medium' through which comprehension which comprehension of that reality is made possible at all. In short: reality is only knowable through the curious instrument of the human mind (Cloke, 1991: 59-60).

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References Cloke, P., Philo, Ch. & Sadler, D. (1991) Approaching Human Geography. Chapman, London

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