“Understanding” according to Dilthey
Understanding of other people and their life expressions is developed on the basis of experience and self-understanding and the constant interaction between them. Understanding, focusing entirely on the content which remains identical in every context, is, here, more complete than in relation to any other life-expresion.
Comparation with Lock’s and Decartes
Locke sought to trace all ideas or concepts back to their origin in experience. He did not limit experience to sense experience, but included introspective awarness of the mind as it performed various mental operations as part of what he meant by experience, a qualification often not noticed by his immediate followers.
Although descartes as a rationalist is frequently contrasted to Locke an empiricist, Locke endorsed Descartes view of knowledge and certainty. For Locke such knowledge was far more rare than Descartes believed, but Locke agreed with Descartes concerning the nature of knowledge.
Expression of life
Occuring in the world of the senses they are manifestations of mental content which yhey enable us to know. By “life-expressions”, not only expresions which intend something or seek to signify something but also those which make a mental content intelligeble for us without having that purpose.
The mode and accomplishment of the understanding differs according to the various classes of life-expressions.
His opinion about “history”
Arguing that the goal of the human sciences id to understand life from categories derived from life itself, he turned to history for that understanding. Historical expressions of the inner life as we find them in texts, though, have to be interpreted.
“concepts”, “judgement” and “actions”
As contituent parts of knowledge, separated from the experience in which they occurred, what they have in common is conformity to logic.
Judgement asserts the validity of a thought independently of the varied situations in which it occurs, the difference of time and people involved. This is the meaning of the law of identity. Thus the judgement is the same for the man who makes it and the one who understands it; it passes, as if transported, from the speaker to the one who understands it.
Actions form another class of life-expressions. An action does not spring from the intention to communicate; however, the purpose to which it is related is contained in it. Action, through the power of a decisive motive, steps from the plenitude of life into one-sidedness.
lived experience
A particular relation exists between it, the life from which it sprang and the understanding to which it gives rise. For expressions can contain more of the psychological context than any introspection can discover. They are not to be judged as true or false but as truthful or untruthful.
The first understanding arise
Understanding arises, first of all, in the interests of practical life where people are dependent on dealing whith each other. They must communicate with each other. The one must know what the other wants. They are like the letters of the alphabet which, joined together, make higher forms of understanding possible.
Objective mind
Individuals hold in common have objective themselves in the world of the senses. In this objective mind the past is a permanent enduring present for us. Its realm extends from the style of life and the forms od social imtercourse to the system of purpose which sosiety has created for itself and to custom, law, state, religion, arts, science and philosophy.
Understanding of other people and their life expressions is developed on the basis of experience and self-understanding and the constant interaction between them. Understanding, focusing entirely on the content which remains identical in every context, is, here, more complete than in relation to any other life-expresion.
Comparation with Lock’s and Decartes
Locke sought to trace all ideas or concepts back to their origin in experience. He did not limit experience to sense experience, but included introspective awarness of the mind as it performed various mental operations as part of what he meant by experience, a qualification often not noticed by his immediate followers.
Although descartes as a rationalist is frequently contrasted to Locke an empiricist, Locke endorsed Descartes view of knowledge and certainty. For Locke such knowledge was far more rare than Descartes believed, but Locke agreed with Descartes concerning the nature of knowledge.
Expression of life
Occuring in the world of the senses they are manifestations of mental content which yhey enable us to know. By “life-expressions”, not only expresions which intend something or seek to signify something but also those which make a mental content intelligeble for us without having that purpose.
The mode and accomplishment of the understanding differs according to the various classes of life-expressions.
His opinion about “history”
Arguing that the goal of the human sciences id to understand life from categories derived from life itself, he turned to history for that understanding. Historical expressions of the inner life as we find them in texts, though, have to be interpreted.
“concepts”, “judgement” and “actions”
As contituent parts of knowledge, separated from the experience in which they occurred, what they have in common is conformity to logic.
Judgement asserts the validity of a thought independently of the varied situations in which it occurs, the difference of time and people involved. This is the meaning of the law of identity. Thus the judgement is the same for the man who makes it and the one who understands it; it passes, as if transported, from the speaker to the one who understands it.
Actions form another class of life-expressions. An action does not spring from the intention to communicate; however, the purpose to which it is related is contained in it. Action, through the power of a decisive motive, steps from the plenitude of life into one-sidedness.
lived experience
A particular relation exists between it, the life from which it sprang and the understanding to which it gives rise. For expressions can contain more of the psychological context than any introspection can discover. They are not to be judged as true or false but as truthful or untruthful.
The first understanding arise
Understanding arises, first of all, in the interests of practical life where people are dependent on dealing whith each other. They must communicate with each other. The one must know what the other wants. They are like the letters of the alphabet which, joined together, make higher forms of understanding possible.
Objective mind
Individuals hold in common have objective themselves in the world of the senses. In this objective mind the past is a permanent enduring present for us. Its realm extends from the style of life and the forms od social imtercourse to the system of purpose which sosiety has created for itself and to custom, law, state, religion, arts, science and philosophy.
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