Wilhelm Dilthey

There are many methods of teaching the various subjects taught in today’s educational system. One such method is the dialectic approach of Idealism. The dialectic approach can be applied to many different areas of teaching to enhance the educational delivery and the resulting understanding of the students. Idealism is possibly the oldest Western philosophy we know and study in the present day. It traces back at least to Ancient Greece and Plato. It was once the dominant philosophy of Western…

Dating back to June 14th, 1775, America was in dire need of a fighting force for means to protect the homefront. Its roots are based on the Continental Army which was established to fight the American Revolutionary War of 1775-1783. The Revolutionary War was a way to formally establish the nation of the United States of America. With the primary mission of the Army to protect, defend, and sustain the American people. Any and all American military operations now fell under the responsibility…

1.1 In The Sociological Imagination C. Wright Mills describes the sociological imagination as enabling “us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society” (Mills [1959] 2000:6). The sociological imagination facilitates individuals to locate themselves within society, the historical context of their society, and recognize the other individuals that are in his or her same state. “The sociological imagination enables its possessor to understand the larger historical…

to the eternally evolving world of philosophy, Marx is also a premiere example of how philosophers build of one another’s work. Marx drew from many of his predecessors, but there were two in particular that influenced Marx tremendously. Both Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Charles Darwin, made astronomical impacts on Karl Marx’s belief system and philosophy, and undoubtedly prove that prior philosophers have and always will influence future generations. In order to show the succession from one…

degree that the European peasants experienced. The society Marx lived in was this gap between rich and poor that concerned Marx and influenced his political and economic philosophy. Marx also found influence in philosophical thinkers such as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; Adam Smith and David Ricardo; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Henri de Saint-Simon and Charles Fourier; Ludwig Feuerbach and Friedrich…

The Battle of Monmouth and Molly Pitcher There was not a decisive victory during the June 28th 1778 Battle of Monmouth for the Continental Army or the British forces due to the toxic leadership of Major General Charles Lee and many of the British forces suffering from heat related injuries. It was not one of the bloodiest battles of the revolutionary war; there were only around two hundred and thirty casualties’ total, and ninety-six of those where from heat stroke due to the heat wave…

The Lord and the Slave According to Georg Friedrich Hegel in his Lordship and Bondage, all conscious being fall into a “new relationship” of “the Lord” and “the Slave.” (Hegel, 32) Proving that this relationship is still being seen we use it to analyze the relationships between men and women in Glaspell’s Trifles. Throughout the story, the theme of master and slave are presented through clues that are shown through the relationships between men and women in the story. The first clear clue…

One of the goals of Wilhelm Dilthey’s Introduction to the Human Sciences is to answer whether the philosophy of history can provide knowledge of socio-historical reality as a whole. The philosophy of history is a theory that attempts to know the interconnectedness of historical reality through a correspondence with the unity of interconnected propositions (Dilthey, pg. 142). Gaining knowledge of the interconnectedness of the whole of history is his distinctive task, and he comes to the…

James W. Sire gives us a definition in his book Naming the Elephant of worldview as it being “composed of a number of basic presuppositions, more or less consistent with each other, more or less unconsciously held, more or less true. These presuppositions are generally unquestioned by each of us, rarely if ever mentioned by our friends, and brought to mind only when we are challenged by a foreigner from another ideological universe” (Sire, 20). I would have to say, that I find this definition…

another. A worldview may be unconsciously held in a person's mind due to the culture they were raised in, or due to their ability to understand or perceive life. This concept brings me to Wilhelm Dilthey, a theology student, who began but never finished the study of christian worldview (WWW.Platosanford.edu). Dilthey broke down worldviews into three different categories, religious, poetic and metaphysical which was further broken down into naturalism, idealism of freedom and objective idealism.…