4 ideas
5437 | The claim of hermeneutics to give knowledge through understanding is challenged by positivism [Mautner on Dilthey] |
5436 | Natural science seeks explanation; human sciences seek understanding [Dilthey, by Mautner] |
19398 | Minds are best explained by their ends, and bodies by efficient causes [Leibniz] |
22086 | The most important aspect of a human being is not reason, but passion [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle] |