Dilthey

11 important questions on Dilthey

Distinguish natural and human science

Don't want to master (natural science = the society and knowledge) but want to comprehend ( = human science)

Differences Hegel and Dilthey

Hegel = consciousness is all there is
Dilthey = consciousness is important, but not all there is.
  • You also need natural science
  • The world is nature (1) and independent inner world (2)
  • = lived experience of self


Duality with outside experience (1) and with the world inside the human (inner world)

Human science and natural science

1. Incomparable / incommensurability
  • Two different worlds
    • two different ways to look at the world.
    • There is a limited knowledge of nature
  • For human beings, natural science is always limited
    • Natural science is powerful, but based on basic limitations.
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Facts of consciousness (senses)

  • Natural science
  • the way we experience something in space and time
  • For example: study of color blue in a certain frequency.

Qualities (inner experience)

  • Human science
  • Different meanings
  • For example: study the color blue in different tones / meanings.

Human beings are a combination of:

Inner world (soul) and body (physical)
(Body in a natural world)

= duality between soul and body
You can't reduce the one in the other

Two worlds, two different ways to Locke at this psychophysical life-unit

1. Human science - human view from within (mental facts)
2. Natural science - human view from without
    • Facts of our consciousness/perception (physical)

How to coördinate these two worlds?

  • There is a correlation between the two worlds
  • there is a mutual influence (impact on the other)
  • there is no causation between the two worlds

You need to study the human world

The study of socio-historical reality depends on our knowledge of nature (visa versa)

Human science is baed on

The historical development

Method (components) human science

  1. Historical component
  2. theoretical component
    1. more limited than in natural science (less general)
    2. explanation of behavior (in history)
  3. normatieve / practical component
    1. Expression of value judgements and rules.
      1. they limited how far you can theorize.
      2. they change through history.

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