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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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"If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context."

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

"The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation."

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

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

"No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought."

"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."

"Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day."

"A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization."
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