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Wilhelm Dilthey

"However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century."

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"However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century."

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"The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods."

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"To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point."

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"Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature."

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"The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter."

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"From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon."

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"The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing."

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"All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature."

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