M. A. Hodges

William Dilthey

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Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 1998. This is Volume XXII of twenty-two in the Sociology of Social Theory and Methodology series. Written in 1944, this book serves as an introduction to German philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey, whose trend of his interests and purposes were brought together in a great work, his Critique of Historical Reason, were established as early as 1880, but was unfinished upon his death.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 242g
• ISBN-13: 9780415605113
• ISBN-10: 0415605113
• Artikelnr.: 57046248

Autorenporträt

H.A. Hodges

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter I Dilthey among his contemporaries. The problem of the nineteenth
century. Dilthey's roots in Anglo-French empiricism. And in German
romanticism. His interests outside philosophy. Nature and limits of his
achievement; Chapter II The human studies as knowledge of reality, in
contrast with natural science. Self-knowledge and knowledge of others both
depend on expression. Understanding and reliving. Complexity of the
process. Relation between understanding and abstract thought. "Meaning" as
a category of life. Three classes of expressions. Nature and functions of
art. Nature and history of hermeneutics. Autobiography, biography, and
historiography. " Objective mind" as the datum for historical knowledge.
The historical consciousness and historicism. The systematic human studies;
Chapter III Psychologism and anti-psychologism among philosophers. Dilthey
holds that philosophy and the human studies depend on psychology. Need of
reform in psychological aims and methods. " Explanatory " and "
descriptive" psychology. The " structure " of mental life. Psychology as
exploration of this structure. Dilthey's programme for psychology. Part ial
fulfilment of it in recent psychology. Dilthey's subsequent doubts. "
Understanding-psychology" in Jaspers, Spranger, etc. Defence of Dilthey's
bolder view; Chapter IV " Sociology " in Comte, Mill, and Spencer. "
Philosophy of history" in Germany. Dilthey's objections to both. "Cultural
systems "in society. The outer organizations of society. Ambiguous position
of law. Origins of the separate social studies. Reasons against Dilthey's
rejection of a comprehensive sociology. Dilthey on historical periods. His
attitude to Hegel's historical dialectic; Chapter V The proper study of
mankind is man. Idealism and the contrast between natural science and
historical knowledge : Windelband and Rickert. Dilthey's reply. Empiricism
and its dangers. The human studies are based on expression and
understanding. They grow directly out of common experience. They understand
their units and their interrelations from within. They are weak on general
laws but strong in the study of the individual. They are determined
throughout by an interest in values. They are mutually dependent. Conflict
of romantic and positivist views in Dilthey. The fact behind this conflict.
Its importance for education.; Chapter VI Dilthey's roots in Kant and the
empiricists. His advance beyond both. Philosophy as the quest for absolute
principles. Weltanschauung as the synthesis of cognitive, affective, and
conative experiences. The "metaphysical consciousness". Its expression in
religion and art. Its expression in philosophy: metaphysics. The task which
metaphysics sets itself is impossible. The quest of absolute principles is
vain. Philosophy as "psychology in motion". Philosophy as comparative study
of outlooks The three types of outlook. Dilthey, Hegel, and Collingwood.
Insufficiency of Dilthey's typology. Relativism and the necessity of
choice. Philosophy as existential thinking. Transition from Dilthey to
Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Jaspers;