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By the end of the nineteenth century, both materialist-empiricist and idealist-apriorist efforts to interpret the relation between nature and spirit (including physical and mental existence and nature and culture) had been exhausted. This was the context for the emergence of Lebensphilosophie (life-philosophy). Bergson’s life-philosophy resolved contradictions in empiricist approaches such as Spencer’s. Yet Bergson’s view rested on an intuitionism that couldn’t adequately evaluate rationality and structured cultural phenomena. The same was true for Spengler’s approach to history. The neo-Kantians attempted to resolve the split between nature and spirit through expansion of the resources of logic to cover the humanities. Dilthey, however, saw that logic was insufficient as a paradigm for the humanities, which led to his own version of hermeneutics. Dilthey recognized the relevance of a theory of the human to hermeneutics, as well as the backdrop in nature that this implied, but wasn’t able to carry his inquiries far in these domains. This book attempts to complete this task: to lay out a philosophy of nature supporting a philosophical anthropology, in turn supporting a hermeneutics. |
