Conceptualizing the World as a Procedural Tool for Reading the History of Philosophical Thought

Abstract

This study concerns itself with the establishment of proper methodological foundations for studying the human phenomenon. It illustrates how this concept, since the writings of Wilhelm Dilthey, was based on distinguishing between the methods of human sciences and those of natural sciences, against the overpowering influence of the paradigm of natural sciences. Dilthey argued for the need to define a distinctive humanistic, rather than naturalistic, approach to problems in the social sciences.