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| Lebensphilosophie: Wilhelm Dilthey's philosophy of life is a counter-movement to positivism and Neo-Kantianism. He holds that life is the basis of all thought and action. For Dilthey, life is an infinite becoming and passing away that manifests itself in multiple forms and expressions. See also Neo-Kantianism, Positivism, W. Dilthey._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Wilhelm Dilthey on Lebensphilosophie - Dictionary of Arguments
Gadamer I 230 Lebensphilosophie/Dilthey/Gadamer: For [Dilthey], meaning is not a logical concept, but is understood as an expression of life. Life itself, this flowing temporality, is designed to create lasting units of meaning. Life itself lays itself out. It has a hermeneutic structure itself. Thus life forms the true basis of the humanities. Hermeneutics is not merely the romantic hereditary material in Dilthey's thinking, but results logically from the foundation of philosophy in "life". DiltheyVsHegel: Dilthey tinks of himself fundamentally superior to the "intellectualism" of Hegel precisely because of this. DiltheyVsLeibniz: Neither could the romantic-pantheistic concept of individuality coming from Leibniz be sufficient for him. The foundation of philosophy in life also resists a metaphysics of individuality and sees itself far away from the Leibnizian aspect of windowless monads that unfold their own law. For them, individuality is not an original idea rooted in appearance. Dilthey rather insists that all "mental vitality", is under certain circumstances(1). Force/Dilthey: There is no original force of individuality. It is only what it is by asserting itself. Limitation by the course of action belongs to the essence of individuality - as to all historical concepts. Also terms like purpose and meaning do not mean ideas in the sense of Platonism or Scholasticism for Dilthey. They are also historical terms, as far as they refer to the limitation by the course of action. They must be terms of energy. Dilthey refers for this to Fichte(2) who was also of decisive influence just as Ranke. In this respect his hermeneutics of life wants to remain on the ground of the historical view of the world(3). Philosophy provides him only with the conceptual possibilities to express the truth of this view. >Force/Dilthey. 1. Dilthey, Ges. Schriften V, 266. 2. Vll, 157; 280; 333. 3. VII, 280._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Dilth I W. Dilthey Gesammelte Schriften, Bd.1, Einleitung in die Geisteswissenschaften Göttingen 1990 Gadamer I Hans-Georg Gadamer Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010 Gadamer II H. G. Gadamer The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986 German Edition: Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977 |
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