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This book examines, above all, the relationship between reason and Vedic revelation, and the philosophical responses to the idea of the Veda. It deals with such topics as dharma, karma and rebirth, the role of man in the universe, the motivation and justification of human actions, the relationship between ritual norms and universal ethics, and reflections on the goals and sources of human knowledge. Halbfass presents previously unknown materials concerning the history of sectarian movements, including the notorious "Thags" (thaka), and (...) relations between Indian and Iranian thought. The approach is partly philosophical and partly historical and philological; to a certain extent, it is also comparative. The author explores indigenous Indian reflections on the sources, the structure and the meaning of the Hindu tradition, and traditional philosophical responses to social and historical realities. He does not deal with social and historical realities per se; rather, basing his work on the premise that to understand these realities the reflections and constructions of traditional Indian theorists are no less significant than the observations and paradigms of modern Western historians and social scientists, he explores the self-understanding of such leading thinkers as Sankara, Kumarila, Bhartrhari and Udayana. (shrink)

1. Definition und Reduktion.--2. Theorie und Erfahrung.

I formulate a theory of groups based on pluralities and counterparts: roughly put, a group is a plurality of entities at a time. This theory comes with counterpart-theoretic semantics for modal and temporal sentences about groups. So this theory of groups is akin to the stage theory of material objects: both take the items they analyze to exist at a single time, and both use counterparts to satisfy certain conditions relating to the modal properties, temporal properties, and coincidence properties of (...) those items. (shrink)

Dilthey is a figure of real importance in European philosophy and social theory. He exerted a significant influence on Husserl, Heidegger and Weber (among others) through his work on the nature of philosophy and the methodology and epistemology of human and social studies. He was also a distinguished and original historian of ideas and, indeed, many of his philosophical interests arose from the insights and practical difficulties he encountered as a historian. He produced a monumental biography of Schleiermacher, and a (...) series of shorter, but no less striking studies of Hegel, Dickens, Shakespeare, Schiller and many others. (shrink)

Instances of the law of large numbers are used to model many different physical systems. In this paper, I argue for a particular interpretation, of those instances of that law, which appeals to typicality. As I argue, the content of that law, when used to model physical systems, is that the probability of an event typically—rather than probably—approximates the frequency with which that event occurs.

English summary: Der Band legt erstmals Diltheys groae, wirkungsreiche Berliner Vorlesung zur allgemeinen Geschichte der Philosophie vor, die er uber einen Zeitraum von zwanzig Jahren (zwischen dem Sommersemester 1885 und dem Wintersemester 1905/06) gehalten hat. Auaerdem wird der Biographisch-literarische Grundria wieder zuganglich gemacht, der fur die Horer der Vorlesung gedruckt wurde und in sechs - jeweils aktualisierten - Auflagen erschienen ist.Mit Band XXIII kommt die Edition von Diltheys Vorlesungen im Rahmen der Ausgabe seiner Gesammelten Schriften zu ihrem Abschlua. Der Band (...) stutzt sich unter anderem auf die beiden groaen Vorlesungsnachschriften von Eduard Spranger (Wintersemester 1900/01) und Herman Nohl (Wintersemester 1902/03).Dilthey entwirft die Geschichte der Philosophie aus universalhistorischer Perspektive und behandelt die Geschichte des menschlichen Denkens von den religios-philosophischen Konzeptionen der Volker des Ostens bis zur westeuropaischen Philosophie des spaten 19. Jahrhunderts. Dabei verfolgt er nicht rein doxographische Interessen, sondern versteht Philosophiegeschichte auch als Teil der philosophischen Grundlegung. German description: Der Band legt erstmals Diltheys groae, wirkungsreiche Berliner Vorlesung zur allgemeinen Geschichte der Philosophie vor, die er uber einen Zeitraum von zwanzig Jahren (zwischen dem Sommersemester 1885 und dem Wintersemester 1905/06) gehalten hat. Auaerdem wird der Biographisch-literarische Grundria wieder zuganglich gemacht, der fur die Horer der Vorlesung gedruckt wurde und in sechs - jeweils aktualisierten - Auflagen erschienen ist.Mit Band XXIII kommt die Edition von Diltheys Vorlesungen im Rahmen der Ausgabe seiner Gesammelten Schriften zu ihrem Abschlua. Der Band stutzt sich unter anderem auf die beiden groaen Vorlesungsnachschriften von Eduard Spranger (Wintersemester 1900/01) und Herman Nohl (Wintersemester 1902/03).Dilthey entwirft die Geschichte der Philosophie aus universalhistorischer Perspektive und behandelt die Geschichte des menschlichen Denkens von den religios-philosophischen Konzeptionen der Volker des Ostens bis zur westeuropaischen Philosophie des spaten 19. Jahrhunderts. Dabei verfolgt er nicht rein doxographische Interessen, sondern versteht Philosophiegeschichte auch als Teil der philosophischen Grundlegung. (shrink)

English summary: This collection includes letters to and from W. Dilthey between 1852-1882.

This book is a pioneering effort to elaborate a general theory of the human sciences, especially history, and to distinguish these sciences radically from the ...

Bd. 1. Die Pioniere der pädagogischen Bewegung.--Bd. 2. Ausbau und Selbstkritik.

La vie historique est un complément essentiel aux recherches de Dilthey sur la fondation des sciences humaines. Il y développe une philosophie qui prend en compte tant la vie que l'histoire, l'individu que les communautés et structures dans lesquelles il s'intègre. L'articulation entre la vie, l'expression et la compréhension en constitue un élément essentiel qui l'inscrit au coeur de l'herméneutique. L'ouvrage apporte ainsi un complément essentiel aux recherches qui, en France, ont opposé de manière très radicale la pensée de la (...) structure et la connaissance de l'individu et de son inscription singulière dans le monde. (shrink)