Author: Wilhelm Dilthey

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If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

- Wilhelm Dilthey

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.

- Wilhelm Dilthey

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.

- Wilhelm Dilthey

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

- Wilhelm Dilthey

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