Wilhelm Dilthey (1833 to 1911) was a German philosopher best known for the way he distinguished between the natural and the human sciences. He defined the human sciences broadly, to include both the humanities and the social sciences, and held that where the natural sciences aim at law-based causal explanations, the human sciences aim at understanding the organizational structures and dynamic forces of human and historical life. His project was to expand Kant's Critique of Pure Reason into a Critique of Historical Reason that could do justice to the social and cultural dimensions of human experience. Born in Biebrich on the Rhine, he took his first professorship at Basel in 1867 and later held in Berlin the chair that Hegel had once occupied. His reflections on the human sciences, historical contextualization and hermeneutics influenced later thinkers such as Husserl, Heidegger, Cassirer, Gadamer and Ricoeur.
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Wilhelm Dilthey was born in Biebrich on the Rhine in 1833
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Wilhelm Dilthey was a German philosopher who lived from 1833-1911.
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Wilhelm Dilthey was a German philosopher who lived from 1833-1911.
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He defined the human sciences broadly to include both the humanities and the social sciences.
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Wilhelm Dilthey was a German philosopher who lived from 1833-1911.
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These goals, as formulated in the inaugural lecture that Dilthey gave in 1867 on assuming his first professorship in Basel
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Dilthey's aim was to expand Kant's primarily nature-oriented Critique of Pure Reason into a Critique of Historical Reason
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Dilthey's reflections on the human sciences, historical contextualization, and hermeneutics influenced many subsequent thinkers
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Dilthey's aim was to expand Kant's primarily nature-oriented Critique of Pure Reason into a Critique of Historical Reason
Influenced By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Life and Thought, Hegel
He admired Hegel's recognition of the historical dimension of philosophical thought
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influenced many subsequent thinkers such as Husserl, Heidegger, Cassirer, Gadamer and Ricoeur
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Dilthey's reflections on the human sciences, historical contextualization, and hermeneutics influenced many subsequent thinkers
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Wilhelm Dilthey (1833 - 1911) was a German philosopher of the Modern era
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