German philosopher who derived from the thought of Kant a conception of philosophical study as one of the social sciences in Einleitung in die Geisteswissenshaften (Introduction to the Human Sciences) (1883). Metaphysical speculation in particular, Dilthey held in Die Typen der Weltanschauung (1912), is an expression of the world-view of one's culture rather than a timeless expression of perfect rationality.
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Rudolf A. Makkreel, Dilthey (Princeton, 1992);
Richard E. Palmer, Hermeneutics: Interpretation Theory in Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger and Gadamer (Northwestern, 1969).
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"The human being knows itself only in history, never through
introspection; indeed, we all seek it in history. Or, to put it more generally,
we seek what is human in it, such as religion, and so on. We want to know what
it is. If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that
aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context. The
individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development,
which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an
important decision. The human being is only given to us at all in terms of its
realized possibilities."