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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.
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.
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.
Jan 16, 2008 · 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.
Dilthey distinguishes methods recurring in every domain of human knowledge from those peculiar to particular problems. The latter kind of method constitutes what Dilthey calls a higher logic which establishes ‘rules of procedure that arise when a particular set of real conditions is introduced’.
Jun 8, 2018 · Wilhelm Dilthey (1833–1911), German philosopher, historian, literary critic, and biographer, was professor of philosophy at Basel in 1867, at Kiel from 1868 to 1870, at Breslau from 1871 to 1881, and at Berlin, where he succeeded Hermann Lotze in 1882.
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.
