Wilhelm Dilthey
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Wilhelm Dilthey was a German thinker of the 19th and early 20th centuries who worked across history, psychology, sociology, and philosophy, with a particular focus on how we interpret and understand human meanings and texts. His work matters because he developed influential ideas about interpretation (hermeneutics) that shaped how scholars approach understanding human culture, history, and behavior differently from how we study the natural world.
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Wilhelm Dilthey (/ˈdɪltaɪ/; German: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈdɪltaɪ]; 19 November 1833 – 1 October 1911) was a German historian, psychologist, sociologist, and hermeneutic philosopher, who held Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Chair in Philosophy at the University of Berlin. As a polymathic philosopher, working in a modern research university, Dilthey's research interests revolved around questions of scientific methodology, historical evidence and history's status as a science.
Dilthey has often been considered an empiricist, in contrast to the idealism prevalent in Germany at the time, but his account of what constitutes the empirical and experiential differs from British empiricism and positivism in its central epistemological and ontological assumptions, which are drawn from German literary and philosophical traditions.
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