History · Historiography
Consider the following statements regarding Wilhelm Dilthey's view of history: A. Dilthey strongly believed that the historical and social sciences, unlike the other sciences, had not freed themselves from metaphysics. B. Comte and John Stuart Mill had attempted to do this, but in Dilthey's opinion had thereby mutilated historical reality. C. Dilthey agreed with the empiricists and positivists that all sciences rested upon experience, but he stressed that experience is not merely a passive state in which the conscious mind receives sense data. D. The task of the social and historical sciences for him rested in the analysis of the data of consciousness, because these sciences must take into account that all thoughts, individual actions, and institutions are part of living totalities and processes and can be understood only in their context. Which of the above statements are correct?
- 1A, B, C, and D✓
- 2B, C, and D
- 3A, C, and D
- 4A, B, and C
Correct answer
A, B, C, and D
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