Wilhelm Dilthey: Selected Works, Volume VI

Wilhelm Dilthey

Published by Princeton University Press 2019

Wilhelm Dilthey: Selected Works, Volume VI

Ethical and World-View Philosophy

Wilhelm Dilthey
Edited by: Rudolf A. Makkreel and Frithjof Rodi

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691197371

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About this book

This is part of a six-volume translation of the main writings of Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) is intended to make available to English readers translations of complete texts representing the full range of Dilthey’s philosophical views including his principle writings on psychology, aesthetics, ethics, and pedagogy, together with some historical essays and literary criticism.

This book completes a landmark six-volume translation of the major writings of Wilhelm Dilthey (1833–1911), a philosopher and historian of culture who continues to have a significant influence on philosophy, hermeneutics, and the theory of the human sciences. These volumes make available to English readers texts that represent the full range of Dilthey's work.

The works in this volume present Dilthey's most deeply held views about philosophy and how it can guide human practices. System of Ethics (1890) argues that Humean sympathy motivates us only externally and must be replaced with the internally motivated fellow-feeling of solidarity that respects others as ends in themselves. The Essence of Philosophy (1907) demonstrates how philosophy has developed from its traditional metaphysical role to the epistemological and encyclopedic functions that ground and order the natural and human sciences. The work also discloses an orientational function of philosophy that is explored further in "The Types of World-View and Their Development" (1911). Philosophical world-views are important in that they address the existential needs and riddles that grow out of life experience and are not solved by any of the sciences.

In addition, the book features three other significant essays. "Present Day Culture and Philosophy" (1898) concerns the challenges to philosophy posed by contemporary culture. "Dream" (1903) is about the thinkers portrayed in Raphael's School of Athens and Dilthey's worries about them breaking up into three divergent groups. Finally, "The Problem of Religion" (1911) considers how religiosity can still inform lived experience in secular times.

Author information

Rudolf A. Makkreel is the Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Emory University. His many books include Dilthey: Philosopher of the Human Studies (Princeton). Frithjof Rodi is professor emeritus of philosophy at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. He was one of the editors of Dilthey's Gesammelte Schriften and the Dilthey-Jahrbuch.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
PREFACE TO ALL VOLUMES Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
EDITORIAL NOTE TO VOLUME VI Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME VI Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. SYSTEM OF ETHICS (1890) Stephen W. Ball and Rudolf A. Makkreel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
PART II. PRESENT-DAY CULTURE AND PHILOSOPHY (1898–1900) Patricia Van Tuyl and Rudolf A. Makkreel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
PART III. DREAM (1903) Ramon J. Betanzos and Rudolf A. Makkreel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
PART IV. THE ESSENCE OF PHILOSOPHY (1907) John Krois and Rudolf A. Makkreel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
PART V. THE TYPES OF WORLD-VIEW AND THEIR DEVELOPMENT IN METAPHYSICAL SYSTEMS (1911) James McMahon and Rudolf A. Makkreel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
PART VI. THE PROBLEM OF RELIGION (1911) Stephen W. Ball and Rudolf A. Makkreel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
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