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Dilthey's roots in Kant and the empiricists. His advance beyond both. Philosophy as the quest for absolute principles. Weltanschauung as the synthesis of cognitive, affective, and conative experiences. The “metaphysical consciousness”. Its expression in religion and art. Its expression in philosophy: metaphysics. The task which metaphysics sets itself is impossible. The quest of absolute principles is vain. Philosophy as “psychology in motion”. Philosophy as comparative study of outlooks The three types of outlook. Dilthey, Hegel, and Collingwood. Insufficiency of Dilthey's typology. Relativism and the necessity of choice. Philosophy as existential thinking. Transition from Dilthey to Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Jaspers
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Dilthey's roots in Kant and the empiricists. His advance beyond both. Philosophy as the quest for absolute principles. Weltanschauung as the synthesis of cognitive, affective, and conative experiences. The “metaphysical consciousness”. Its expression in religion and art. Its expression in philosophy: metaphysics. The task which metaphysics sets itself is impossible. The quest of absolute principles is vain. Philosophy as “psychology in motion”. Philosophy as comparative study of outlooks The three types of outlook. Dilthey, Hegel, and Collingwood. Insufficiency of Dilthey's typology. Relativism and the necessity of choice. Philosophy as existential thinking. Transition from Dilthey to Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Jaspers