Dilthey
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Distinguish natural and human science
Differences Hegel and Dilthey
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
- 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:
(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
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
Human science is baed on
Method (components) human science
- Historical component
- theoretical component
- more limited than in natural science (less general)
- explanation of behavior (in history)
- normatieve / practical component
- Expression of value judgements and rules.
- they limited how far you can theorize.
- they change through history.
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