Wilhelm Dilthey
| Wilhelm Dilthey | |
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| Born |
19 November 1833 Wiesbaden-Biebrich, Germany |
| Died | 1 October 1911 (aged 77) Seis am Schlern, Austria-Hungary |
| Alma mater |
Heidelberg University University of Berlin (PhD, 1864; Dr.phil.hab., 1864) |
| Era | 19th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School |
Hermeneutics German Historism Lebensphilosophie |
| Institutions |
University of Berlin (1865–66; 1882–1911) University of Basel (1867) University of Kiel (1868–70) University of Breslau (1870–82) |
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Main interests
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Verstehen, literary theory, literary criticism, intellectual history, human sciences, hermeneutic circle, Geistesgeschichte, facticity |
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Notable ideas
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General hermeneutics, distinction between explanatory and descriptive sciences distinction between explanatory and descriptive psychology, typology of the three basic Weltanschauungen |
Wilhelm Dilthey (German: [ˈdɪltaɪ]; 19 November 1833 – 1 October 1911) was a German historian, psychologist, sociologist, and hermeneutic philosopher, who held G. W. F. Hegel's Chair in Philosophy at the University of Berlin. As a polymathic philosopher, working in a modern research university, Dilthey's research interests revolved around questions of scientific methodology, historical evidence and history's status as a science. He could be considered an empiricist, in contrast to the idealism prevalent in Germany at the time, but his account of what constitutes the empirical and experiential differs from British empiricism and positivism in its central epistemological and ontological assumptions, which are drawn from German literary and philosophical traditions.
Dilthey was born in 1833 as the son of a Reformed pastor in the village of Biebrich in the Duchy of Nassau, now in Hesse, Germany. As a young man he followed family traditions by studying theology at Heidelberg University, where his teachers included the young Kuno Fischer. He then moved to the University of Berlin and was taught by, amongst others, Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg and August Boeckh, both former pupils of Friedrich Schleiermacher. In 1864, he received his doctorate from Berlin with a thesis in Latin on the ethics of Schleiermacher, and in the same year he also earned his habilitation with a thesis on moral consciousness. He became a Privatdozent at Berlin in 1865.
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