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Humanities: The humanities are the study of human culture and society, such as history, literature, philosophy, art, music, and language. See also Society, Culture, Language, Philosophy, Art, Music._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Wilhelm Dilthey on Humanities - Dictionary of Arguments
Gadamer I 12 Humanities/history/historiography/ Dilthey/Gadamer: Even Dilthey, in which the influence of the scientific method and the empiricism of Mills' logic(2) is much more strongly asserted, nevertheless retains the romantic-idealistic heritage in the concept of the spirit. Cf. >Historiography/Droysen. DiltheyVsEmpirism: He always felt superior to English empiricism because he lived in the vivid perception of what distinguished the historical school from all scientific and natural law thinking. "Only from Germany can the real empirical method come in place of the prejudiced dogmatic empiricism." DiltheyVsMill: "Mill is dogmatic for lack of historical education" - this is a note Dilthey wrote in his copy of Mill's Logic. In fact, all the decades of hard work Dilthey dedicated to the foundation of the humanities is a constant examination of the logical demand that Mill's famous final chapter(2) had made on the humanities. Method/Dilthey/Gadamer: Nevertheless, Dilthey let himself be deeply influenced by the model of the natural sciences, even if he wanted to justify the methodological independence of the humanities. For Dilthey, scientific knowledge includes the dissolution of the bond of life, the gaining of a distance to one's own Gadamer I 13 history, which alone makes it possible to make them into objects. >Method/Dilthey. 1. W. Dilthey, Gesammelte Schriften Bd. V, S. LXXIV. 2. J. St. Mill, System der deduktiven und induktiven Logik, übertragen von Schiel, 1863, 6. Buch »Von der Logik der Geisteswissenschaften Oder moralischen Wissen- schaften«. - - - Wright I 19 Humanities/W. Dilthey/Wright, G. H.: Dilthey used the term "humanities" for the entire domain of the method of understanding. The German term "humanities" comes from the translation of the English "moral science"._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Dilth I W. Dilthey Gesammelte Schriften, Bd.1, Einleitung in die Geisteswissenschaften Göttingen 1990 Gadamer I Hans-Georg Gadamer Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010 Gadamer II H. G. Gadamer The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986 German Edition: Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977 WrightCr I Crispin Wright Truth and Objectivity, Cambridge 1992 German Edition: Wahrheit und Objektivität Frankfurt 2001 WrightCr II Crispin Wright "Language-Mastery and Sorites Paradox" In Truth and Meaning, G. Evans/J. McDowell, Oxford 1976 WrightGH I Georg Henrik von Wright Explanation and Understanding, New York 1971 German Edition: Erklären und Verstehen Hamburg 2008 |