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Dilthey, Wilhelm (1833-1911)

From Encyclopedia of Philosophers on Religion
Born in the village of Biebrich am Rhein, Dilthey was the son of a liberal-minded, Calvinist clergyman and court preacher to the Duke of Nassau. His mother was the daughter of a renowned musician who instilled in her young son such a love for listening to music that he came to regard it as a religious act. It was the wish of his parents that he follow in his father’s footsteps and become a clergyman. Thus, after completing his secondary education at the Gymnasium in Wiesbaden, and despite his own preference for law, he was encouraged to take up the study of theology, first at Heidelberg, then at Berlin. His major instructors at both schools were historians of philosophy whose rather pantheistic leanings, combined with the lingering influence of his childhood exposure to the Pietistic emphasis of his parents upon the inward experience of God, awakened in him the possibility of devoting the rest of his life to uncovering the "history of the Christian Weltanschauung of the West." While, …
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Full text Article Wilhelm Dilthey

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Despite being hailed by the famed Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset as ‘the most important thinker of the second half of the nineteenth century,’ Wilhelm Dilthey remains an obscure figure to the Anglo-American world. This while notables like Heidegger and Husserl openly recognize their debt to the…
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Full text Article Dilthey, Wilhelm (1833–1911),

From Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
German philosopher and historian whose main project was to establish the conditions of historical knowledge, much as Kant's Critique of Pure Reason had for our knowledge of nature. He studied theology, history, and philosophy at Heidelberg and Berlin and in 1882 accepted the chair earlier held by…
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Full text Article Dilthey, Wilhelm (1833-1911)

From Encyclopedia of Philosophers on Religion
Born in the village of Biebrich am Rhein, Dilthey was the son of a liberal-minded, Calvinist clergyman and court preacher to the Duke of Nassau. His mother was the daughter of a renowned musician who instilled in her young son such a love for listening to music that he came to regard it as a…
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Full text Article Human Science

From Dictionary of Nursing Theory and Research
Human science , defined broadly, distinguishes between natural science disciplines and others focused more directly on problems of human existence. Specifically, the term is associated with a central theme of Wilhelm Dilthey's (1833–1911) philosophy of life, based on examination of human and social…
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This term usually refers to the Berlin-based school (as distinct from Leipzig and Würzburg) of German psychologists during the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Carl Stumpf’s (1848–1936) arrival in 1894 being a key event. Stumpf’s primary Psychological interest was in music and tone…
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Full text Article human sciences

From Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology
This term has its origins in the work of Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), who, in his 1883 Introduction to the Human Sciences , argued for a conception of the human sciences that contrasted with existing perspectives and practices in many parts of the humanities and nascent social sciences . He argued…
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Full text Article Hermeneutics

From World of Sociology, Gale
The term, hermeneutics, derives from “Hermes,” the messenger-god of Zeus. The word comes from the Greek verb hermeneuo meaning “to interpret” and the Greek noun hermeneutika meaning “message analysis”. It refers to understanding an action or situation in the broader context of intentions, causes, …
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Full text Article HERMENEUTICS THEORY

From Elsevier's Dictionary of Psychological Theories
= hermeneutic interpretative theory. The German philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) first described this viewpoint concerning the ability and art of interpreting human speech, writing, and behavior in terms involving difficult or “fuzzy” concepts such as intentions and meanings (cf., the…
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Full text Article Dilthey, Wilhelm

From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
(born Nov. 19, 1833, Biebrich, Nassau, Ger.—died Oct. 1, 1911, Seis am Schlern, South Tirol, Austria-Hungary) German philosopher of history. Opposed to contemporary efforts to transform the methodology of the humanities and the social sciences on the model of natural science, Dilthey tried to…
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Full text Article REALITY

From Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
Danish physicist The conception of the objective reality of the elementary particles has evaporated in a curious way, not into the fog of some new, obscure reality concept, but into the transparent clarity of a mathematics that represents no longer the behavior of the elementary particles but rather…
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