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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Dilthey's philosophy of world-views (Weltanschauungslehre)

Ilse N. Bulhof

pp. 80-109

Abstract

Dilthey had maintained in the Introduction to the Human Sciences that because history had shown pronouncements of truth to be historically conditioned, a critique of historical reason was necessary. He felt that it was imperative first to solve the antimony between man's historical consciousness and his need for certainty — between history and reason. This could hardly be done be devising any new metaphysical system, for such a system would again be historically conditioned; it would be of relative validity only, and would not, as a result, command much respect.

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Published in:

(1980) Wilhelm Dilthey: a hermeneutic approach to the study of history and culture. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 80-109

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-8869-9_5

Full citation:

Bulhof Ilse N. (1980) Dilthey's philosophy of world-views (Weltanschauungslehre), In: Wilhelm Dilthey, Dordrecht, Springer, 80–109.