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Berlin, Isaiah
The practice of history thus requires gaining knowledge of what consciousness was like for other persons, in situations other than our own, through an 'imaginative projection of ourselves into the past' in order to 'capture concepts and categories that differ from those of the investigator by means of concepts and categories that cannot ...
Ricoeur, Paul
All these threads in Ricoeur's philosophy come together in Ricoeur's last big book (Memory, History, Forgetting, 2004) pointing to the final revised lectures on recognition. This three part work first takes up the question of memory and recollection in response to questions about uses and abuses of memory in contemporary society.
Hempel, Carl
The philosophy of science, therefore, cannot be displaced by history or by sociology. Not least among the important lessons of Hempel's enduring legacy is the realization that the standards of science cannot be derived from mere descriptions of its practice alone but require rational justification in the form of explications satisfying the ...
Hermeneutics
Hermeneutics is the study of interpretation. Hermeneutics plays a role in a number of disciplines whose subject matter demands interpretative approaches, characteristically, because the disciplinary subject matter concerns the meaning of human intentions, beliefs, and actions, or the meaning of human experience as it is preserved in the arts and literature, historical testimony, and other ...
Dilthey, Wilhelm
Concepts that posit the soul of a people "are no more usable in history than is the concept of life-force in physiology" (1883/SW.I, 92). Suspicion of those who posit overriding self-sufficient entities like nations and peoples led Dilthey to distance himself from the nationalism of his contemporary Heinrich von Treitschke and to ally ...
Hegel
1. Life, Work, and Influence. Born in 1770 in Stuttgart, Hegel spent the years 1788-1793 as a student in nearby Tübingen, studying first philosophy, and then theology, and forming friendships with fellow students, the future great romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) and Friedrich von Schelling (1775-1854), who, like Hegel, would become one of the major figures of the German ...