Scientific Explanation and Religious-Mythical Explanation

This is a critique on scientism according to Ernst Cassirer’s philosophy of symbolic forms. What is emphasized here is the perspectivism in the thought of this Neo-Kantian philosopher which can be interpreted so that mythicalreligious explanations receive an epistemological value of its own independent from scientific one. Thus, without reducing the epistemological truth of scientific propositions, we propose to find out what is not seen in the scientific explanation as a rule. Being one of the most important concepts of the science, “causality” would be compared with what Cassirer calls “mythical causality”. The most fundamental distinction between mythical and scientific concepts of causality leads us to this conclusion that the former responses essentially to a spiritual need, that is, holding for humankind a pivotal role in the events occurring all over the cosmos.