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Wilhelm Dilthey

Wilhelm Dilthey

German Historian

Born: Nov 19, 1833

Died: Oct 1, 1911

Experience Knowledge Nature Reality Science World

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No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought. Wilhelm Dilthey

Thought Extract Diluted Locke Rather Constructed Mere Veins Knowing Real Subject Blood Kant Reason Activity Flows

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self. Wilhelm Dilthey

Reality Human Being Own Other Wills Given Self Simultaneously Feels His Hand Human Represents Being Much Certitude Who Whole External

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

Better Light Validated Adequate Find Rational Could New Doctrine Scientific Were Methods Substance Experiences Psychology Which Lived Expression Now

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

Knowledge World School System Independent Spirit Thus Principles Within Sciences Falls Accordance Historical Itself Human Form

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

Knowledge Science Eyes Own Other Gaze Eye Would Would-Be Seeing Directing Attempt Like Without Than Modern Behind Modern Science Acknowledge

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

Philosophical Philosophy Object Concern Make Itself

A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization. Wilhelm Dilthey

Knowledge Progress Become Healthy Society Our Resources Rule Promoting Vital Civilization Concern Forces Causes Produced

All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature. Wilhelm Dilthey

Nature Science Experience Related Back Our Validity Must Totality Arises Context Conditions Which Derives Consciousness

From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon. Wilhelm Dilthey

World Perspective Only Remains Mere Always Representation External External World Phenomenon

If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences. Wilhelm Dilthey

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