The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundationMore Wilhelm Dilthey quotes [09/21/2011 04:09:07]

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.More Wilhelm Dilthey quotes [09/21/2011 04:09:13]

Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day.More Wilhelm Dilthey quotes [09/21/2011 04:09:55]

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.More Wilhelm Dilthey quotes [09/21/2011 04:09:41]

To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.More Wilhelm Dilthey quotes [09/21/2011 04:09:25]