ABSTRACT
We have designated as “cultural sciences” those disciplines which analyze the phenomena of life in terms of their cultural significance. Naturally, it does not imply that the knowledge of universal propositions, the construction of abstract concepts, the knowledge of regularities and the attempt to formulate "laws" have no scientific justification in the cultural sciences. All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view. However, there emerges from this the meaninglessness of the idea which prevails occasionally even among historians, namely, that the goal of the cultural sciences, however far it may be from realization, is to construct a closed system of concepts, in which reality is synthesized in some sort of permanently and universally valid classification and from which it can again be deduced.
