ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses problems, which characterizes the particular approach within the sociological and philosophical development. The sociology transcended itself in the direction of philosophy already, in Max Weber; but quite openly and consciously, in Troeltsch and Scheler. This surpasses itself towards the philosophy, however, by no means implies giving up the duty to supply evidence imposed by the methods of empirical research. The structure of the trend in German sociology that Curtius attacks is not at all so simple; nor can it by any means be compared with French sociology. The facts that author have undertaken to formulate the task of studying the factual thinking of men not only programmatically, but gradually to work out a method to the purpose and to test it in historical empirical studies. The structural autonomy of the philosophical level of problems must not be interpreted to mean that the practitioner of 'specialised science' is forbidden to enter these regions into their elements.
