"The contradiction, that a principle [i.e. the idea that things exist outside of us] which by nature cannot be immediately certain is yet accepted as blindly and groundlessly as one that is so, is incapable of resolution by the transcendental philosopher, save on the presupposition that this principle is not just covertly and as yet ( Read more... )

Well hell, I had no idea how much Dilthey has in common with Schelling.  It's like he's taken some basic concepts and divisions from Schelling, purged them of that early Romantic tinge, and restated them in a way that sounds matter-of-fact and pragmatic, rather than sublime and overwrought ( Read more... )