Philosopher
Wilhelm Dilthey
Overview
Wilhelm Dilthey (; German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈdɪltaɪ]; 19 November 1833 – 1 October 1911) was a German philosopher who held Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Chair in Philosophy at the University of Berlin. As a polymathic philosopher working in the emerging modern research university, Dilthey aimed to establish the methodological foundations of the human sciences, including history, hermeneutics, and nascent psychology, in relation to the natural sciences.
Dilthey's account of what constitutes the empirical and experiential is drawn from the traditions of German philosophy and literature, and differs from British empiricism and positivism in its central epistemological and ontological assumptions. But he emphasized experience and historical evidence, and has sometimes been styled an empiricist by contrast to then prevailing idealism.
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Philosophers who discussed Wilhelm Dilthey
- Heinrich Rickert
- Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Immanuel Kant
- Jürgen Habermas
- Giambattista Vico
- Karl Mannheim
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
- Karl-Otto Apel
- Max Weber
- Herbert Spencer
- Jean Bodin
- Charles Taylor (philosopher)
- Martin Heidegger
- Michael Oakeshott
- György Lukács
- José Ortega y Gasset
- Max Scheler
- Edmund Husserl
- William Ernest Hocking
- Truth and Method
- Hans Freyer
- Leo Baeck
- Tetsurō Watsuji
Ideas Wilhelm Dilthey discusses
- Heidelberg University
- Empiricism
- Georg Simmel
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Neo-Kantianism
- Wilhelm Windelband
- Heinrich Rickert
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg
- Giordano Bruno
- Auguste Comte
- Henri Bergson
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Immanuel Kant
- Verstehen
- Idealism
- Antipositivism
- Mind–body dualism
- German philosophy
- German Romanticism
- Internet Archive
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
- Sociology
- Max Weber
Place in the tradition
Part of German philosophy.