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  1. Wilhelm Dilthey ( / ˈdɪltaɪ /; German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈdɪltaɪ]; [6] 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 ...

  2. Jan 16, 2008 · Wilhelm Dilthey was a German philosopher who lived from 1833–1911. Dilthey is best known for the way he distinguished between the natural and human sciences. He defined the human sciences broadly to include both the humanities and the social sciences. Whereas the main task of the natural sciences as Dilthey found them was to arrive at law ...

  3. Wilhelm Dilthey (born Nov. 19, 1833, Biebrich, near Wiesbaden, Nassau—died Oct. 1, 1911, Seis am Schlern, near Bozen, South Tirol, Austria-Hungary) was a German philosopher who made important contributions to a methodology of the humanities and other human sciences. He objected to the pervasive influence of the natural sciences and developed ...

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  4. Jan 16, 2008 · Wilhelm Dilthey. Wilhelm Dilthey was a German philosopher who lived from 1833-1911. He is best known for the way he distinguished between the natural and human sciences. Whereas the primary task of the natural sciences is to arrive at law-based explanations, the core task of the human sciences is the understanding of human and historical life.

  5. Wilhelm Dilthey (November 19, 1833–October 1, 1911) was a German philosopher and psychologist, a major philosopher of the “philosophy of life” (“Lebensphilosophie” in German). Developments of modern science gave a strong impetus to modern philosophers to re-establish philosophy based upon its model. For example, Descartes tried to ...

  6. Wilhelm Dilthey, (born Nov. 19, 1833, Biebrich, Nassau, Ger.—died Oct. 1, 1911, Seis am Schlern, South Tirol, Austria-Hungary), German philosopher of history.Opposed to contemporary efforts to transform the methodology of the humanities and the social sciences on the model of natural science, Dilthey tried to establish these fields as interpretive sciences in their own right.

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  8. DILTHEY, WILHELM (1833 – 1911). The German philosopher and historian Wilhelm Dilthey was born in Biebrich on the Rhine, the son of the preacher to the Duke of Nassau. He studied theology and philosophy in Heidelberg and Berlin and combined both of these interests in his early work on the ethical and hermeneutical writings of Friedrich Schleiermacher.

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