Wilhelm Dilthey: Understanding the Human World

by Iryna Liashenko^1
1 Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Kyiv, Ukraine)
DOI: http://doi.org/10.29202/phil-cosm/20/16
Received: 30 May 2017 / Accepted: 29 June 2017 / Published: 30 January 2018

This article has the same name as the second volume in a six-volume translation of the major writings of Wilhelm Dilthey, published in Princeton University Press in 1991-1996, for two reasons: 1) to limit our research of key philosophical and psychological writings from the 1890-s, in which Dilthey propagated a descriptive and analytic psychology as a “human science” (Geisteswissenschaft); 2) to emphasize and understand Dilthey’s assertion that the human world was sufficiently different from the natural world that special methods were required for its study; hermeneutics, the deliberate and systematic methodology of interpretation, was the only necessary approach for studying and understanding the human world.

Keywords: Wilhelm Dilthey, understanding, hermeneutics, human world, psychology, human science, Plato’s Line

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Liashenko, Iryna (2018) Wilhelm Dilthey: Understanding the Human World. Philosophy and Cosmology, Volume 20, 163-169. http://doi.org/10.29202/phil-cosm/20/16