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Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system.

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If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

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A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.

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All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature.

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Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day.

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Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

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From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.

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However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.

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If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences.

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In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Historian

Born: November 19th, 1833

Died: October 1st, 1911

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