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Wilhelm Dilthey

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The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision.


— Wilhelm Dilthey


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The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.


— Wilhelm Dilthey


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The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods.


— Wilhelm Dilthey


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The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation.


— Wilhelm Dilthey


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Thus there arose in me both a need and a plan for the foundation of the human sciences.


— Wilhelm Dilthey


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Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system.


— Wilhelm Dilthey


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To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.


— Wilhelm Dilthey


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We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern.


— Wilhelm Dilthey


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Did you know about Wilhelm Dilthey?

Jos de Mul The Tragedy of Finitude: Dilthey's Hermeneutics of Life (New Haven: Yale University Press 2004). For Dilthey like Hegel "spirit" (Geist) has a cultural rather than a social meaning. Makkreel Dilthey: Philosopher of the Human Studies (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1993).

As a polymathic philosopher working in a modern research university Dilthey's research interests revolved around questions of scientific methodology historical evidence and history's status as a science. He could be considered an empiricist in contrast to the idealism prevalent in Germany at the time but his account of what constitutes the empirical and experiential differs from British empiricism and positivism in its central epistemological and ontological assumptions which are drawn from German literary and philosophical traditions. Wilhelm Dilthey (German: [ˈdɪltaɪ]; 19 November 1833 – 1 October 1911) was a German historian psychologist sociologist and hermeneutic philosopher who held Hegel's Chair in Philosophy at the University of Berlin.

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