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DILTEY(Dilthey) Wilhelm (November 19, 1833, Biberich - October 1, 1911, Seiss an der Schlern, Switzerland) - German philosopher, founder of the tradition philosophy of life . Born into a family of a priest, he was preparing to become a pastor. In 1852 he entered the University of Heidelberg, after a year of studying theology he moved to Berlin. He defended his thesis in 1864. Since 1868 he was a professor in Kiel, one of the trustees of the archive Schleiermacher . Already in the 1st volume of the monograph "The Life of Schleiermacher" (Schleiermachers Leben, 1870), he formulates the main themes of his philosophy: the internal relationship of mental life and hermeneutics as a science that interprets objectifications. human spirit. Since 1882 - Professor of Philosophy in Berlin. In 1883, the 1st volume of "Introduction to the Sciences of the Spirit" (Einleitung in die Gesteswissenschaften, Russian translation 2000) was published, outlines for the following volumes appeared only in 1914 and 1924 in the Collected Works, and a single body of texts appeared only in 1989 During his lifetime, Dilthey remained the author of a large number of private studies, scattered among various academic publications, and until the end of the 19th century. was little known. Influenced by the German tradition of historical thinking, Dilthey intended to supplement Kant's Critique of Pure Reason with his own "critique of historical reason". The main theme of the “Introduction to the Sciences of the Spirit” is the specificity of humanitarian knowledge (the term “sciences of the spirit”, Geisteswissenschaften – translation of “moral science” by D.St. it was the natural sciences that became the ideal of universally valid knowledge - English and French positivism, O. Comte). Instead of the “cognizing subject”, “reason”, the “holistic person”, the “totality” of human nature, the “fullness of life” becomes the starting point. The cognitive attitude is included in a more primordial life attitude: “In the veins of the cognizing subject, which Locke, Hume and Kant construct, flows not real blood, but the liquefied juice of reason as pure mental activity. For me, however, the psychological and historical study of man led me to place him, in all the diversity of his powers, as a desiring, feeling, imagining being, at the basis of the explanation of knowledge” (Gesammelte Schriften, Bd 1, 1911, S. XVIII). Descartes' "cogito" and Kant's "I think" are replaced in Dilthey by the unity given in self-consciousness "I think, I desire, I fear" (Ibid., Bd 19, S. 173). The commonality with the idealistic tradition is preserved in the fact that consciousness, and not any factors lying outside, still remains the starting point in the science of man for Dilthey.

Consciousness is understood as an integral historically conditioned complex of cognitive and motivational conditions that underlie the experience of reality. Consciousness is a way experienced by a person, in which something “is” for him, irreducible to intellectual activity: consciousness is the perceived aroma of the forest, enjoyment of nature, memory of an event, aspiration, etc., i.e. various forms in which the psychic manifests itself. All objects, our own volitional acts, my "I" and the external world are given to us primarily as an experience, as a "fact of consciousness" (the principle of phenomenality). The form in which something can be given in consciousness is what Dilthey calls "awareness" (Innewerden) (Ibid., S. 160 ff.), sometimes "experience" ("instinct, will, feeling"); the mental here is not yet divided into thinking, feeling, will (Dilthey is trying to avoid the dualism of subject and object). “The existence of a mental act and knowledge about it are not different things...”; “Because of what I am, I know about myself” (Ibid., S. 53-54).

In On the Solution of the Question of the Origin of Our Belief in the Reality of the External World and Its Validity (Beiträge zur Lösung der Frage vom Ursprung unseres Glaubens an die Realität der Aussenwelt und seinem Recht, 1890), Dilthey, in contrast to Hume, Berkeley, and others, states that the external world is not given to us as a "sensory" phenomenon - it is such only for intellectual activity. The concept of "external world" and "reality" arises in the experience of resistance, "the bodily limitation of one's own life", in which all the forces of mental life are involved and which arise even during embryonic life. The concept of "object" is formed on the basis of the constant forms (Gleichförmigkeiten) of such counteraction, independent of our will.

In Descriptive Psychology (Ideen zu einer beschreibenden und zergliedernden Psychologie, 1894), Dilthey examines in detail the already formed individual mental life of a person and the methods of comprehending it. The opposition between the "sciences of nature" and the "sciences of the spirit" is preserved in the dualism of "external" and "internal" perception, defining the first opposition: objects natural sciences are given to us “from the outside” and separately, and therefore natural-science psychology has to reduce phenomena to a limited number of uniquely defined elements and construct connections between them using hypotheses. The advantage of "internal perception" is that our mental life is given to us directly and already as something integral (as a relationship). Hence the contrast between the two methods of explanation and understanding: “we explain nature, we comprehend spiritual life” (Ibid., Bd 5, 170 ff.), explanation brings the individual case under a general law, understanding presupposes the participation of inner experience. The method of the new psychology must be descriptive, dissecting the interconnected levels of mental life, which Dilthey sees as interconnected, structured and developing. Structural interconnection determines the interaction of the main components of mental life - thinking, will and feelings; the acquired interconnection of mental life is understood by Dilthey as the totality of all life experience; explaining thus that at each stage of its development life itself sets certain goals and achieves their fulfillment, Dilthey introduces the concept of teleological interconnection. The self-sufficiency of life (expressed by its structural interconnection) makes it necessary to “understand life from itself” (Ibid., Bd 4, p. 370): it is impossible to rely on any grounds transcendent to it.

In the future, the subject of Dilthey's research became comparative psychology, poetic creativity, historical types worldviews, religious and ethical consciousness, etc. Just as descriptive psychology is the basis for the sciences of the spirit, so the latter help to understand the life of an individual person from different angles. In the work “Experience and Poetry” (Das Erlebnis und die Dichtung. Lessing, Goethe, Novalis, Hölderlin, 1905), Dilthey argued that the poetic expression most fully and adequately conveys “experience”, because it is free from categorical forms of reflection, has a special “ energy of experience", his "objectivity" is not removed from all the wealth mental strength; poetry finds expression in the fundamental "forms" of the inner world.

In Der Aufbau der geschichtlichen Welt in den Geisteswissenschaften, 1910, Dilthey's last significant work, The Construction of the Historical World in the Sciences of the Spirit deals with the problem of interpreting historically given forms - "objectifications of life", since a person lives "not in experiences, but in world of expression" and the character of experience underlying the sciences of the spirit is predominantly of a linguistic nature. The method of the philosophy of life is based, according to Dilthey, on the trinity of experiencing certain life phenomena, expression (synonymous with "objectivation of life") and understanding, the problematics of which come close to the problem of someone else's individuality, Another .

The methodology of understanding and interpretation applied by Dilthey allowed researchers (Gadamer, Bolnov) to call him the founder of philosophical hermeneutics (although Dilthey himself did not use this term in relation to his philosophy). Dilthey's philosophy of life owes much to existential philosophy ( Jaspers , G. Lipps), she had a great influence on the development of pedagogy (G. Nol, E. Spranger, T. Litt, O.-F. Bolnov), in which Dilthey saw "the goal of any true philosophy."

Compositions:

1. Gesammelte Schriften, Bd 1–18. Gott., 1950-77;

2 Briefwechsel zwischen Wilhelm Dilthey und dem Grafen Paul Yorck von Wartenburg, 1877-1897. Halle/Saale, 1923;

3. in Russian per.: Types of worldview and their detection in metaphysical systems. – In: New Ideas in Philosophy, vol. 1. St. Petersburg, 1912;

4. Introduction to the sciences of the spirit (fragments). - In the book: Foreign aesthetics and theory of literature of the XIX-XX centuries. Treatises, articles, essays. M., 1987;

5. Descriptive psychology. M., 1924;

6. Sketches for a Critique of Historical Reason. - "VF", 1988, No. 4;

7. Collection. soch., vol. 1. M., 2000.

Literature:

1. Dilthey O.-F. Eine Einführung in seine Philosophie. Lpz., 1936; 4 Aufl., Stuttg.-B.-Köln-Mainz, 1967;

2. Miss G. Vom Lebens- und Gedankenkreis Wilhelm Diltheys. Fr./M, 1947;

3. Materialien zur Philosophie Wilhelm Diltheys. Fr./M., 1987;

4. Plotnikov H.S. Life and history. Philosophical program of Wilhelm Dilthey. M., 2000.

Chapter 5

§ 4. V. Dilthey

Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) was a German cultural historian and philosopher. The representative of the philosophy of life, the founder of understanding psychology and the school of "history of the spirit" (the history of ideas) in the German history of culture. From 1882 he was a professor in Berlin.

Main works: "Descriptive psychology". M., 1924; "Types of worldview and their detection in metaphysical systems" // Culturology. XX century. Anthology. M., 1995; "Sketch to the Critique of Historical Reason" // Questions of Philosophy. 1988. No. 4; "Categories of Life" // Questions of Philosophy. 1995. No. 10.

“Philosophy of life” is a direction that has developed in the last third of the 19th century. In addition to Dilthey, its representatives were Nietzsche, Simmel, Bergson, Spengler, and others. It arose as an opposition to classical rationalism and as a reaction to the crisis of mechanistic natural science. She turned to life as a primary reality, an integral organic process.

The very concept of life is ambiguous and indefinite, giving room for various interpretations. It is understood in biological, cosmological, and cultural-historical terms. Thus, in Nietzsche, the primary reality of life appears in the form of the "will to power." For Bergson, life is a "cosmic vital impulse", the essence of which is consciousness or superconsciousness. For Dilthey and Simmel, life appears as a stream of experiences, but culturally and historically conditioned.

However, in all interpretations, life is a holistic process of continuous creative formation, development, opposing mechanical inorganic formations, everything definite, frozen and “become”. That is why the problem of time as the essence of creativity, development, and formation was also of great importance in the philosophy of life. The theme of history, historical creativity is connected with a heightened sense of time. As Dilthey believed, the "kingdom of life", understood as the objectification of life in time, as the organization of life in accordance with the relations of time and action, is history.

Is it possible to comprehend life? If possible, then with the help of what means, methods, techniques, etc.? Some representatives of the philosophy of life believe that the phenomena of life are inexpressible in philosophical categories. Others believe that the process of life is not subject to the deadening, corrupting activity of the mind with its analysis and dissections. The mind, by its very nature, is hopelessly detached from life. In Dilthey, unlike the two approaches mentioned, the categories of life are meaning, structure, value, the whole and its elements, development, interconnection, essence, and other categories that can be used to express the "inner dialectic of life".

In general, anti-scientism dominates in the philosophy of life, and rational knowledge is declared here to be oriented towards the satisfaction of purely practical interests, acting from considerations of utilitarian expediency. scientific knowledge and its methods are opposed to non-intellectual, intuitive, figurative-symbolic ways of comprehending (basically irrational) life reality - intuition, understanding, etc. Works of art, poetry, music, empathy, getting used to and other out-of- rational ways of mastering the world.

For Dilthey, life is a way of being a person, a cultural and historical reality. Man and history are not something different, and man himself is history, in which the essence of man is considered. Dilthey sharply separated the world of nature from the world of history, "life as a way of being a person." The German thinker singled out two aspects of the concept of "life": the interaction of living beings - this is in relation to nature; the interaction that exists between individuals in certain external conditions, comprehended regardless of changes in place and time - this is in relation to the human world. The understanding of life (in the unity of these two aspects) underlies the division of the sciences into two main classes. Some of them study the life of nature, others ("sciences about the spirit") - the life of people. Dilthey proved the independence of the subject and method of the humanities in relation to the natural sciences.

According to Dilthey, the comprehension of life, proceeding from itself, is the main goal of philosophy and other "sciences of the spirit", the subject of which is social reality in the fullness of its forms and manifestations. Therefore, the main task of humanitarian knowledge is the comprehension of the integrity and development of individual manifestations of life, their value conditioning. At the same time, Dilthey emphasizes: it is impossible to abstract from the fact that man is a conscious being, which means that in the analysis human activity one cannot proceed from the same methodological principles from which an astronomer proceeds when observing the stars.

And from what principles and methods should the "sciences of the spirit" proceed in order to comprehend life? Dilthey believes that this is primarily a method of understanding, i.e. direct comprehension of some spiritual wholeness. This is the penetration into the spiritual world of the author of the text, inextricably linked with the reconstruction of the cultural context of the creation of the latter. In the sciences of nature, the method of explanation is used - the disclosure of the essence of the object under study, its laws on the way of ascent from the particular to the general.

In relation to the culture of the past, understanding acts as a method of interpretation, which he called hermeneutics - the art of understanding the manifestations of life fixed in writing. He considers hermeneutics as the methodological basis of any humanitarian knowledge. The philosopher distinguishes two types of understanding: understanding of one's own inner world, achieved through introspection (self-observation); understanding of someone else's world - by getting used to, empathy, feeling (empathy). Dilthey considered the ability to empathize as a condition for the possibility of understanding cultural and historical reality. The most "strong form" of comprehension of life, in his opinion, is poetry, for it "is somehow connected with the event experienced or understood." One of the ways to comprehend life is intuition. Dilthey considers biography and autobiography to be important methods of historical science.

From thinking about life, in his opinion, "life experience" arises. Separate events, generated by the collision of our instincts and feelings in us with those around us and fate outside of us, are generalized in this experience into knowledge. As human nature always remains the same, so the basic features of life experience are something that is common to all. At the same time, Dilthey notes that scientific thinking can test its reasoning, can accurately formulate and justify its provisions. Another thing is our knowledge of life: it cannot be verified, and exact formulas are impossible here.

The German philosopher is convinced that not in the world, but in man, philosophy must seek "the inner connection of its knowledge." The life lived by people is what, in his opinion, he wants to understand modern man. At the same time, firstly, one must strive to unite life relationships and the experience based on them "into one harmonious whole." Secondly, it is necessary to direct one's attention to presenting "the image of life itself full of contradictions" (vitality and regularity, reason and arbitrariness, clarity and mystery, etc.). Thirdly, proceed from the fact that the way of life "acts out of the changing data of life experience."

In connection with these circumstances, Dilthey emphasizes the important role of the idea (principle) of development for comprehending life, its manifestations and historical forms. The philosopher notes that the doctrine of development is necessarily connected with the knowledge of the relativity of any historical form of life. Before a gaze that embraces the entire globe and everything that has passed, the absolute significance of any separate form of life disappears.

Tasks of the Critique of Historical Reason

The connection of the spiritual world originates in the subject, and it consists in the movement of the spirit to determine the semantic basis of the connection of this world, which unites individual logical processes with each other. So, on the one hand, the spiritual world is the creation of a comprehending subject, and on the other hand, the movement of the spirit is aimed at achieving objective knowledge in this world. Thus, we approach the question of how the structure of the subject's spiritual world makes it possible to cognize spiritual reality. Earlier I called this the task of the critique of historical reason. The solution of this problem is possible only if separate actions are identified that contribute to the creation of this connection, if then it is possible to fix the participation of each such action in the structure of the historical development of the spiritual world and in the disclosure of its systematics. This historical development should show how far it is possible to eliminate the difficulties arising from the interdependence of truths. It will also deduce the real principle of humanitarian-scientific comprehension gradually from experience. Understanding is finding again I in You; the spirit finds itself, ascending to higher and higher levels of connection; this identity (Selbigkeit) of the spirit in the I, in the You, in every subject of the community, in every system of culture, and finally in the integrity of the spirit and world history, makes possible the mutual influence of various actions in the sciences of the spirit. Here the subject of cognition is one with its object, and this object is the same at all levels of objectification. If this is the way of cognizing the objectivity of the spiritual world created by the subject, the question arises how much this can contribute to solving the problems of cognition in general. In developing the problem of cognition, Kant proceeded from the principles that in formal logic and mathematics serve as a means of considering the problem of cognition; formal logic at the time of Kant saw in the ultimate logical abstractions, laws and forms of thinking the last logical basis for the validity of all scientific laws. The laws and forms of thinking, and above all the judgment in which, in his opinion, these categories are represented, contained the condition of knowledge. He extended these conditions with those which, from his point of view, make mathematics possible. The greatness of Kant's approach lay in the exhaustive analysis of mathematical and natural science knowledge. The question, however, is whether, within the framework of his concepts, a theory of knowledge of history, which Kant himself did not develop, is possible.

Interiorization and Reality: Time 2

I I take here what I said earlier about life and experience as a premise. Now the task is to show the reality of what is comprehended in experience, and since here we are talking about the objective value of the categories of the spiritual world that arise from experience, I will allow me to make a few remarks regarding the sense in which the expression “category” is used here. . In the predicates that we state about objects, there are also methods of comprehension. The concepts that characterize these ways of comprehension, I call categories. Categories form internal systematic connections, the highest categories characterize the highest points of comprehension of reality. Further, each such category characterizes a special world of predications, formal categories are forms of expression of all reality. Real categories include only those that have their origin in the comprehension of the spiritual world, if they then find application in the transformation of all reality. General predicates that characterize the connectedness of experience arise in the experience of a single individual; insofar as they are applied in individual acts of objectifying life in understanding and in characterizing the subjects of statements inherent in the sciences of the spirit, the scope of their significance will expand, and then it turns out that wherever there is spiritual life, it has an inherent effect, strength, value, etc. Thus, these universal predicates acquire the status of categories of the spiritual world.

• * Two chapters are published here from the first part of the “Sketches for a Critique of Historical Reason”, which is entitled “Experience, Expression and Understanding” (see: Dilthey W. Gesammelte Schriften, Bd. VII. Stuttgart - Tubingen, 1973, S. 191- 227). Developing a plan for further research into the structure of the historical world, the sciences of the spirit, V. Dilthey sets himself the task of giving a critique of the historical mind, which, along with revealing the links between experience, expression and understanding, involved an analysis of the structure of historical knowledge, the basic concepts of history and the problem of values ​​in historical research . All questions are discussed in the second part.
• "Compare also with the discourses in "The Structure of the Historical World in the Sciences of the Mind" - "Gesammelte Schriften, Bd. VII. Stuttgart-Tubingen, 1973, S.. 107ff.
• 2 In the manuscript, the subtitle is different: “Chapter one. Experience".

In life, its first categorical definition is fundamental to all other definitions that include temporality (Zeitlichkeit). This is revealed already in the expression "the course of life." Time is given to us thanks to the unifying unity of our consciousness. Life and the external objects manifested in it have in common the relations of simultaneity, sequence, time interval, duration, change. Of these, on the basis of mathematical natural science, abstract relations were developed, which Kant laid at the foundation of his doctrine of the phenomenal nature of time.

These relationships define, but do not exhaust, the experience of time, in which the concept of time finds its ultimate realization. Here, time is perceived as an unceasing movement forward, in which the present ceaselessly becomes the past, and the future becomes the present. The present is a moment filled with reality, it is real in contrast to memory or ideas about the future, which are found in desire, expectation, hope, fear, aspiration. This fullness of reality or the present exists constantly, while the content of experience is constantly changing. The idea of ​​the past and the future exists only for those who live in the present. The present is always given, and there is nothing but what is revealed in it. The ship of our life, as it were, carries the current, and the present is always and everywhere where we sail in its waves, suffering, remembering or hoping, in short, wherever we live in the fullness of our reality. We are constantly moving, involved in this current, and at the moment when the future becomes the present, the present is already immersed in the past. Thus, moments of filled time are not only qualitatively different from each other, but if we look from the present back to the past or look into the future, then each moment of this flow of time, regardless of what we find in it, will have a different character. . Behind us are only a series of memories, ordered by awareness and emotionality; like that. just as a row of houses or trees disappears in the distance, shrinking, so this succession of memories is different in the degree of its proximity to us and disappears into the twilight of the horizon. And the more links - mental states, external events, means, goals - between the present and the future that are being realized, the more opportunities there are for a certain course of events, the more uncertain and foggy the image of this future becomes. Looking back at the past, we are passive: the past is unchanging, in vain the man predetermined by the past dreams that everything could have been otherwise. In relation to the future, we are active, free. Here, along with the category of reality, which is revealed to us in the present, the category of possibility arises. We feel like people with limitless possibilities. Thus, this experience of time determines the content of our life in all directions. That is why the doctrine of the pure ideality of time has no meaning in the sciences of the spirit. After all, this teaching can only assert that on the other side of life, which is characterized by both “gazing” into the past, depending on the course of time and temporality, and unrelenting, active and free striving for the future and the ultimate despair, effort, labor arising from this. goals directed to the future, the transformation and unfolding that is carried out in the temporal life process as a condition of this entire illusory realm of timelessness extends - something lifeless. But in this life of ours there is a reality, the knowledge of which is possessed by the sciences of the spirit.

The antinomies that thinking reveals in the experience of time arise from the impenetrability of this experience for knowledge. The smallest interval of time moving away from us already contains the flow of time. The present never exists; what we experience as the present always contains the memory of what just happened in the present. Among all other moments, the past continues to act on the present as a force, the significance of the past for the present, giving the memory a peculiar character of presence, due to which the memory is involved in the present. That which, in the flow of time, constitutes a unity in the present, in so far as it has a single meaning, constitutes that little unity which we may call experience. In what follows, we will call an experience any embracing the unity of intervals of life, connected by a common meaning in the life stream, even where these periods are separated from each other by processes that interrupt them.

Experience is the turning of time, in which each state, before it becomes a distinct object, changes, because each subsequent moment builds on the previous one, and where each moment, not yet grasped, turns into the past. Then that moment appears as a memory that has the freedom to expand its sphere. However, observation destroys the experience. Therefore, there is nothing more strange than the way of communication that we have called a small segment of the life process; only one thing remains unchanged: the structural relation is its form. If you try, by resorting to some special kind of effort, to experience the very stream of life, then the coast immediately appears; after all, according to Heraclitus, the stream is always one and the same, but at the same time not the same, it is many and one; in this case, we again fall under the action of the law of life itself, according to which any moment of life that has become the object of observation, no matter how much we intensify the consciousness of the flow in ourselves, turns out to be a remembered moment, and not a flow; because the flow is fixed with the help of attention, which is stopped it pours into itself what is flowing. Therefore, we cannot comprehend the essence of this very life. What is revealed to the disciple from Sais 3 is an image, not life. This must be clear to oneself in order to comprehend the categories that arise in life itself.

It follows from this property of real time that the flow of time is strictly non-experiential. The presence of the past replaces direct experience for us. Wishing to observe time, we destroy it with the help of observation, since it is established through attention; observation stops the flowing, the becoming. We experience only the changes of what just happened, and the changes of what just happened continue. But we do not experience the flow itself. We experience a certain state, returning back to that which experiences duration and changes in ourselves, nothing changes in the interporation of our I. The same is true with introspection.

The life process consists of components, of experiences, which are internally connected with each other. Each individual experience is related to the Self of which it is a component; experience is structurally related to other components. Throughout the spiritual world we find connection, therefore connection is a category that arises from life. We can comprehend this connectedness through the unity of consciousness. This is a condition that any form of comprehension is subject to, but it is quite clear that the statement of a connection cannot follow from the simple fact that a variety of experiences is given to the unity of consciousness. The connectedness of life is given to us only because life itself is a structure that connects experiences, or a structure of emotional relationships. This connection is comprehended with the help of a universal category, which is a way of speaking about the whole of reality - the category of the relationship of the whole to parts 4 .

Spiritual life arises on the soil of the physical world, it is included in evolution, being its highest step on Earth. The conditions under which it arises are analyzed by natural science, which reveals the laws that govern physical phenomena. Among all these phenomenal bodies, there is also human body, and experience is most directly connected with it. But with experience we are already moving from the world of physical phenomena into the realm of spiritual reality. This is the subject of the sciences of the mind, and thinking about it ... 5 and their cognitive value is completely independent of the study of their physical conditions.

Knowledge about the spiritual world arises from the interaction of experience, understanding of other people, historical comprehension of communities as subjects of historical action, and, finally, objective spirit. Experience is the fundamental premise of all this, so the question arises: what actions are caused by it?

Experience includes elementary acts of thinking. I call them the intelligence of experience. It appears along with the growth of awareness: the change of the inner content is thus transformed into an awareness of the difference. In that which changes, this or that circumstance is comprehended separately. Experience includes judgments about the experienced, in which the experience is objective. It would be superfluous to describe here how we, on the basis of experience, gain knowledge of the circumstances of each spiritual act. A feeling that we have not experienced cannot be found in the experience of other people. But for the formation of a science about the spirit, it is decisive that we endow the subject, in whom the possibility of experiencing is limited by the framework of the body, with universal predicates, attributes, based on our experience, which form the starting point for the categories of sciences about the spirit. Formal categories, as we have seen, arise from elementary acts of thought. They are concepts that represent what is comprehended by these acts of thought. These are such concepts as unity, diversity, equality, difference, degree, relation. They are attributes of all reality 6 .

• 3 Novalis's novel The Disciples from Sais is meant.
• 4 The end of the paragraph is not deciphered.
• 5 A few words remained incomprehensible.

The connectedness of life

Now a new feature of life is already obvious: it is conditioned by the above-mentioned character of the temporality of life, but goes beyond it. We define our attitude to life - both our own and those of others - through understanding. And this relationship is carried out in its own categories, which are alien to the knowledge of nature as such. If the knowledge of nature, in order to study the stages preceding the emergence of human life in the organic world, needs the concept of an end, then it borrows this category from human life.

Formal categories are abstract expressions for the study of the logical relations of difference, for comprehending the degree of difference, connection, separation. They seem to reveal a picture of the formation of the highest degree, which is only ascertained, but not constructed a priori. These categories are already formed at the initial stages of thinking and then are found in such a capacity in our discursive thinking, which is already conditioned by signs, however, for more high level their development. Formal categories are formal conditions for understanding and cognition both in the sciences of the spirit and in the natural sciences.

However, the real categories in the sciences of the mind are in all cases completely different from those in the natural sciences. I do not dwell on the problem of the emergence of these categories. Here we are talking only about their evaluation. No real category can claim the same meaning both in natural science and in the sciences of the spirit. Any attempt to transfer the method abstractly expressed in natural science into the science of the spirit leads to the fact that the boundaries of natural-scientific thinking are transgressed, which is unacceptable in the same way as it is unacceptable for natural science to transfer relations from the sphere of the spirit to nature, from which the natural philosophy of Schelling and Hegel proceeded. In the historical world there is no natural scientific causality, because the cause in the sense of this natural scientific causality includes the fact that it necessarily causes certain consequences in accordance with certain laws. History knows only the relations of action and suffering, action and reaction.

And regardless of how the future natural science could expand the concept of substances as the foundations - the carriers of events or forces that bring them to life, developing new concepts - all these methods of forming a concept in the field of natural science knowledge are not applicable in the sciences about the spirit. The subjects of the statement about the historical world - from the process of individual life to the life of mankind - are characterized only by a certain way of communication within a clearly limited framework. And although the formal category presented in relation to the whole and the part is the same for this connection, and for the connection of space, time, and for the whole living organism, however, only in the field of sciences about the spirit, this category acquires its own meaning due to the essence of life and the methods corresponding to it. understanding, namely, the meaning of the connection that connects the parts. And here, too, organic life, in accordance with the nature of the evolution of reality, which has become the subject of our experience, should be considered as an intermediate link between inorganic nature and the historical world and, consequently, as a preliminary stage of the latter.

But what is this own meaning, in which all components of human life are connected into one whole? What are the categories in which we master this whole through understanding?

I pay attention to autobiographies, which are a direct expression of the comprehension of life. The autobiographies of Augustine, Rousseau, Goethe are his most typical historical forms. How did these writers achieve an understanding of the above connection between different periods of their lives?

Augustine is entirely focused on understanding the connection of his existence with God. His writing is at the same time a religious reflection, a prayer, and a story. This confession aims to tell about the event of his religious conversion, where each previous event is only a milestone on the way to this goal, which contains the intent of providence regarding this person. For Augustine, neither sensual pleasure, nor philosophical ecstasy, nor the orator's admiration for the gloss of his speech, nor life relationships are value in themselves. In all this, he sees a positive life content, whimsically mixed with a passionate desire for a transcendent relationship; all this is transient, and it is only through conversion to a new faith that an eternal and suffering-free relationship arises. Thus, his understanding of his life is carried out due to the attribution of its individual links to the realization of an absolute value, certainly the highest good, and only in this respect does everyone who directs his gaze to the past develop an awareness of the significance of each past moment of life. Augustine sees in his life not development, but preparation for making a decisive turn away from all the transient content of life.

• 6 This is followed by the beginning of an unfinished phrase: “Real categories…”

Russo! His attitude to his life in the "Confession" can be revealed in the same categories of meaning, value, meaning, purpose. All France was full of rumors about his marriage and his past. Rousseau explained his terrible loneliness, which reached the point of misanthropy and persecution mania, by the incessant activity of his enemies. Looking back at his past, he recalled expulsion from his native home with its harsh Calvinist order, the rejection of an adventurous life in the name of the great that lived in it, all the street dirt, bad food, a feeling of powerlessness in relation to the omnipotence of the aristocrats and the elect around him. minds. However, no matter what he did, no matter what sufferings and hardships he endured, he considered himself an aristocrat and a noble man, whose soul is merged with all mankind, and this was the ideals of his time. That is what he wanted to show the world - to show the legitimacy of his spiritual existence, to reveal it entirely as it was. It also gives a definite interpretation of the course of the external events of his life. Found a connection that is not reduced to a simple relationship of causes and effects. This connection can be expressed only in the following words: value, meaning, significance. On a closer look, we see that there is a peculiar relation of these categories to each other, which expresses its interpretation. Rousseau first of all seeks to achieve recognition of the right of his individual existence. This presents a completely new look at the limitless possibilities of realizing life's values. From this view follows the correlation of categories in which Rousseau interprets his own life.

Now let's turn to Goethe. In Poetry and Truth, man relates to his existence in a universal-historical way. He considers himself only from the point of view of connection with the literary trends of the era. He has a calm and proud sense of a certain place in her. Thus, this elder, looking back at his own past, regards every moment of existence as significant in a twofold sense: as a delighting fullness of life and as a force acting in the coherence of life. He feels every stage of his life - in Leipzig, Strasbourg, Frankfurt - as a life-filled present, determined by the past, as striving forward, towards the formation of the future, but this is already called development. Now let us try to penetrate deeper into the relations that exist between categories as means of comprehending life. The meaning of life is in formation, in development; this uniquely determines the meaning of each moment of life: his meaning is at the same time the lived self-value of the moment and its active power.

Every life has its own meaning. It lies in the meaning that gives each present moment stored in the memory a value in itself, while the meaning of the memory is determined by the relation to the meaning of the whole. This meaning of individual being is completely unique and cannot be analyzed by any kind of knowledge, and yet, like Leibniz's monad, it reproduces the historical universe in a specific way.

Autobiography

Autobiography is the highest and most instructive form in which an understanding of life is presented to us. Here the life path is given as something external, sensual, from which understanding must penetrate to that which determined this path in a certain environment. Therefore, the person who understands this life path is identical to the one who created this path. From this grows a special intimacy of understanding. The same person who is trying to find the coherence of his life story, realized all that he perceived as the value of his life, as its goals, what he projected as life plans, what he, looking into his past, interpreted as development. himself, and looking ahead - as the formation of his life and as its highest good - in all this he has already revealed the coherence of his life in various aspects, which now needs to be revealed. Remembering the various moments of his life, experienced by a person as the most significant, he singles out and focuses on some of them, while others are forgotten. His erroneous assessments of the significance of this or that moment of life will be corrected by the future. Thus, the immediate tasks of comprehending and depicting the historical connection are already half solved by life itself. Different kinds of unity are formed in different conceptions of experience in which the present and the past are held together by common sense. Among these experiences, only those that are of particular significance in themselves and for the coherence of life are retained in memory and are extracted from the endless stream of events and forgotten, and this coherence is created by life itself, being preserved in a person’s various locations, in his constant movements. Thus, the task of historical description is half completed by life itself. Different kinds of unity take the form of experiences; from their infinite, innumerable multitude, a choice is made of what is worthy of description.

And between these links there is a connection, which, of course, cannot simply be a reflection of the real life path over many years, which does not strive for this, since it is only about understanding, but which expresses what individual life itself is aware of through understanding this connection.

Here we have only come to the origins of all historical knowledge. Autobiography is a person's understanding of his life path, which has received a literary form of expression. This kind of self-understanding, to one degree or another, is inherent in every individual. It always exists and manifests itself in ever new forms. This self-understanding is found both in the verses of Solon, and in the reflections of the Stoic philosophers about themselves, in the meditations of the saints, in the modern philosophy of life. It alone makes historical vision possible. The strength and breadth of one's own life, the energy of its comprehension are the basis of historical vision. It alone makes it possible for the bloodless shadows of the past to acquire a second life. The connection of this self-understanding with the need to surrender to someone else's being, up to the loss of one's own Self, which has no facets, distinguishes the great historian.

But what, when considering our life path, constitutes the link with which we connect its individual links into a single whole that allows us to achieve an understanding of life? The universal categories of thinking in the understanding of life are joined by the categories of value, purpose and meaning. Among these categories are such universal concepts as the formation and development of life. The difference between these categories is primarily due to the point of view from which life is understood in terms of time.

Thanks to a retrospective look into the past, carried out in memory, we comprehend the connection of past links in life with the help of the category of significance of memory. Living in the present, full of reality, we evaluate it positively or negatively emotionally, and from the way we relate to the future, the category of goal arises. We interpret life as the realization of a certain higher goal, subordinating all other goals to itself as a means of realizing the highest good. None of these categories can be subordinated to the other, since each of them, according to a different point of view, allows an understanding of the integrity of life. Thus, these points of view are incomparable with each other.

However, their difference regarding the understanding of life is still revealed. Own values, which are recognized in the experience of the present and only in it, are primarily comprehended, but these values ​​are isolated from each other. After all, each of them arises from the actual relationship of the subject to no existing object. (Otherwise, we behave when we put forward a goal - a representation of an object that must be realized.) Thus, the intrinsic values ​​of the experienced present are isolated from each other; they can only be compared with each other and evaluated. What is usually called values ​​characterizes only the attitude towards one's own values. If we attribute an objective value to an object, then this only indicates that different values ​​are experienced in relation to it. If we attribute the value of a consequence to an object, this only means the possibility of a value appearing at a later point in the flow of time. These are all purely logical relationships into which value can enter. experienced in the present. Thus, from the point of view of value, life appears as an infinite wealth of positive and negative values ​​of being. Life is a chaos of harmony and dissonance. Each of them is a combination of sounds that fills the present; but in relation to each other they have no musical relation. The category of purpose or goodness, which comprehends life from the point of view of being directed to the future, presupposes the category of value. But the approach from the point of view of this category does not allow us to imagine the connectedness of life. After all, the ratio of goals to each other is only a ratio of opportunity, choice, subordination. Only the category of meaning overcomes the simple juxtaposition, the simple subordination of the links of life. And since history is memory, and the category of meaning is part of memory, this category is the most specific category of historical thinking. Therefore, it should be developed, and above all - in its gradual development.

Addendum to the paragraph “Connectedness of life”

In connection with the categories of influence and suffering, the category of force arises here. Impact and suffering are, as we have seen, the basis of the principle of causality in the natural sciences. This principle has been developed in its strict form in mechanics (on this see Introduction to the Sciences of the Spirit, 509. See Soch., vol. 1, p. 399) 7 . The concept of force in the natural sciences is a hypothetical concept. If we agree with the significance of this concept for the natural sciences, then it should be said that it is determined by the principle of causality. In the sciences of the spirit, this concept is a categorical expression of what is experienced.

• 7 See: “Gesammelte Schriften”, Bd. II. S. 399.

It arises if we are turned and the future, which is realized in various ways - in dreams of future happiness, in a fantasy that plays with possibilities, in anxiety and fear. But as soon as we pull this aimless expansion of our being into one point, the focus of possibilities will be our determination to realize one of them. The notion of purpose that is being formed here contains something new that has not yet been in various realms of reality and must now enter them: what is at stake here (quite apart from any theory of will) is a tension that a psychologist could interpret physically, - focus on the goal, or rather, the emergence of intentions and the realization of something - something that has not yet happened in reality, the choice of opportunities and the intention to realization of a certain ... 8 specific idea of ​​the goal, the choice of means for its implementation and self-fulfillment. Since this is carried out by the coherence of life, we call it strength.

This is the decisive concept of the sciences of the spirit! Wherever we deal with these sciences, we deal with the whole, with connection. Everywhere in them, the stability of states is fixed as a matter of course, however, as history tries to understand and express changes, it achieves this with the help of concepts that express energy, the direction of movement, the change of historical forces. The more historical concepts assume this character, the better they express the nature of their subject matter. What, in the fixation of an object in a concept, gives the latter the character of a significance independent of time, refers only to the logical form of concepts. Here we are talking about the formation of concepts that express the freedom of life and history. Hobbes often said that life is a constant movement. Leibniz and Wolf expressed the idea that happiness is in the awareness of the progress of individuals and communities.

Comprehension and interpretation of one's own life goes through a series of stages: their most perfect explication is an autobiography. Here, the ego comprehends its life path in such a way that the human substratum, the historical relations in which it is woven, is realized. Thus, autobiography is finally able to unfold into a historical picture; and its boundaries and its meaning are determined by the fact that it is drawn from an experience, the depth of which makes my self and my relation to the world understandable. Man's reflection on himself remains the goal and foundation.

II. Understanding other people and manifestations of their lives

Understanding and interpretation is the method used by the sciences of the spirit. All functions come together in understanding. Understanding and interpretation contain all the truths of the sciences about the spirit. Understanding at each point opens a certain world.

Based on the experience and understanding of oneself, in their constant interaction with each other, an understanding of the manifestations of another life and other people is formed. And here we are not talking about a logical construction or psychological division, but about analysis in the scientific and theoretical sense. For historical knowledge, it is necessary to fix the results of other people's understanding.

Manifestations of life

Everything that is given to us is a manifestation of life. In the sensible world it is an expression of the spiritual. Thus, the manifestations of life allow us to know the spiritual. By the manifestation of life here I mean not only expressions that imply or mean something, but also expressions that allow us to understand the spiritual without pretending to mean something or be a certain opinion.

The way and results of understanding differ depending on the type of manifestations of life.

The first type includes concepts, judgments and more complex formations of thought. Being components of science, they are released from the experience in which they arise, in accordance with their inherent logical norm of universality. The nature of their commonality lies in the identity of the forms of thought, regardless of the place in the mental connection in which they appear. Judgment speaks of the significance of the content of thought, regardless of changes in places of appearance, from differences in times and persons. This is the meaning of the law of identity. Thus judgment is identical both in what it explains and in what it comprehends: a judgment is like a vehicle which, remaining unchanged, moves from the realm of utterance to the realm of understanding. This determines the nature of the understanding of any logically complete mental connection. Here understanding is directed only at the content of thought, which in any connection remains equal to itself, and therefore here it is more complete than in relation to any other manifestation of life. But at the same time, this kind of understanding does not tell anything about the attitude of the person who comprehends the hidden substratum and the fullness of spiritual life. There is not even a hint here of those features of life from which understanding grows, and it is this character of understanding that explains why it does not require a retrospective look at soul connection.

• 8 What follows is a few incomprehensible words.

Actions are another type of manifestations of life. Their source lies in the intention to communicate something. In its correlation with the goal, the act includes the goal. The relation of the act to the conscious principle (das Geistige), which is also expressed in the act, is subject to certain rules and allows one to make probable assumptions about the conscious. However, it is necessary to completely separate the state of mental life, determined by circumstances, which presupposes action and is expressed in action, from the very connection of life in which this state is rooted. Action turns out to be the decisive force that transforms the fullness of life into its one-sidedness. But no matter how weighed the act, it expresses only a part of our being. An act destroys the possibilities of our being. In this way, the deed is also freed from the underlying basis of life connection. And without an explanation of how circumstances, purpose, means, and life connection are combined in it, an act does not allow us to give a comprehensive definition of the inner life from which it arose.

Quite a different expression of experience! A special relationship exists between the expression of an experience, the life from which it arises, and the understanding it produces. It is about soul connection that expression can say more than what any introspection can reveal. Expression rises from depths not illuminated by consciousness. However, at the same time, it is inherent in the very nature of the expression of experience that the relationship between this expression and the spiritual principle that is expressed in it can only to a very small extent be taken as the basis of understanding. The expression of experience does not refer to true or false judgment but to a true or false judgment. After all, pretense, lies, deceit destroy the relationship between the expressed conscious principle and the expression itself.

However, one important difference is revealed, and on it is based the high value that only the expression of experience in the sciences of the spirit can achieve. What flows out Everyday life, is at the mercy of her interests. The transient interests of one day always determine the interpretation of that which is permanent in the transient. The worst thing is that in the struggle of practical interests, any form of expression, as well as interpretation, can be misleading due to a change in our position. But, since in great works the spiritual is released from its connection with its creator - a poet, an artist, a writer, we reach the sphere where delusion ends. No truly great work of art can deceive when it comes to dominant relationships and relationships that may be developed in the future of a spiritual content alien to the author of the work, because it (the work) does not try to say something on behalf of the author. Here the work is really truthful in itself, fixed, visible, long-term, which makes its artistically reliable interpretation possible. Thus, on the borders between knowledge and action, an area arises in which the depths of life are revealed, inaccessible to observation, reflection and theory 9 .

Elementary forms of understanding

Understanding grows primarily from interests practical life. In it, people depend on communication with each other. They must mutually understand each other. One person needs to know what the other wants. Thus, elementary forms of understanding arise first. They are like letters, the union of which makes possible the highest forms of understanding. I consider the interpretation of one single manifestation of life to be such an elementary form. Logically, this form can be represented in the conclusion by analogy. This conclusion is mediated by a regular relationship between the elementary form and what is expressed in it. Namely, a separate manifestation of the life of each of the above-mentioned types is capable of such an interpretation. A series of letters composed into words that form a sentence is a form that expresses a statement. Facial expression may indicate joy or suffering. The elementary acts that make up coherent actions, such as lifting an object, hitting with a hammer, sawing a tree, are characterized by the presence of definite goals. Consequently, this elementary understanding does not achieve a retrospective view of all the connections of life that are created by the stable subject of the manifestations of life. Nor do we know anything about the conclusion in which an elementary understanding could arise.

The fundamental relation on which the process of elementary understanding is based is the relation of the expression to that which is expressed in it. Elementary understanding is not a conclusion from the effect to the cause. For understanding should not be considered, prudently modifying it, as a procedure that brings us back from a given effect to some link in the chain of life that makes the effect possible. There is no doubt that this relation exists in the objects themselves, and thus the transition from one to the other is, as it were, always at the threshold, but it is not necessary to cross the threshold.

• 9 Here is the remark made by Dilthey in the margins: “For this use ch. 2 of the poetics about the manifestation of life and expression”.

And everything, thus correlated with each other, is connected in a certain way with each other. Here, in its elementary form, there is a correlation between the manifestations of life and the conscious principle, which dominates all understanding, according to which, in the movement of understanding towards the expressed conscious principle, the goal is translated into the conscious, and yet the sensually given manifestations do not disappear in the conscious. Both, for example, gesture and fear, are not side by side, but form a unity, which is based on the fundamental relationship of expression to the conscious. But to this must be added the nature of all the elementary forms of understanding, which I will now deal with.

Objective Spirit and Elementary Understanding

I have described the role of the objective spirit in the very possibility of knowledge in the sciences of the spirit. By objective spirit I understand the manifold forms in which the community that exists between individuals has been objectified in the sensible world. In this objective spirit, the past is for us a steadily continuing present. The area of ​​the spirit covers the lifestyle, forms of communication, target connections formed by society, customs, law, state, religion, art, science and philosophy. After all, the work of a genius also represents a community of ideas, spiritual life, ideals of a certain era and environment. The world of the objective spirit provides food for our Self from childhood. This world forms the medium in which an understanding of other people and the manifestations of their lives is achieved. After all, everything in which the spirit was objectified contains something common for I and You. A square surrounded by trees, a room where chairs are arranged in a certain order, are clear to us from childhood, since a person’s goal setting, order, value definition, being something common, gives each area and each object in the room its place. The child grows up in certain family rules, morals that he shares with other family members and which include the orders of the mother. Before a child can speak, he is already completely immersed in the medium of the community. The child learns to understand gestures and facial expressions, movements and exclamations, words and sentences only because they constantly meet him as identical in form and in relation to what they mean and express. Thus, the individual is oriented in the world of objective spirit.

One important consequence for the process of understanding follows from this. The manifestation of life comprehended by the individual, as a rule, turns out to be not only an isolated manifestation for him, it is, as it were, filled with knowledge of the community and the attitude to the inner life that exists in the community.

This subordination of a particular manifestation of life to something in common is facilitated by the fact that the objective spirit contains within itself a certain dismembered order. The objective spirit includes separate homogeneous connections, such as law or religion, and these connections have a stable, regular structure. Thus, the imperatives of civil law, expressed in the paragraphs of the law and designed to ensure the possible degree of perfection in the implementation of life relations, are connected with the procedural order, with the courts and institutions for the implementation of their decisions. Further, within such a connection there is a variety of typical differences. Separate manifestations of life encountered by the subject of understanding can be understood as belonging to one sphere of generality, one type. And, therefore, according to the relationship that exists within this community between the manifestation of life and the conscious principle, the completion of the conscious, which belongs to the manifestation of life, is given along with its inclusion in something more general. The sentence becomes intelligible thanks to the commonality that exists in the language community regarding the meaning of words and forms of inflections, as well as regarding the meaning of syntactic division. The rules of conduct established in a certain culture make it possible that greetings or bows in their shades characterize a certain spiritual attitude towards other people and are understood as such. Crafts have caused the development in various countries of certain methods and tools to achieve the goal, and thanks to these tools, the goal of the craft becomes clear to us when the artisan uses a hammer or a saw. Here, everywhere, the relationship between the manifestation of life and the conscious principle is determined thanks to the organization of the community. Thus, it becomes clear why this relation is present in the comprehension of a separate manifestation of life and why, without a conscious inference procedure, based on the relation of expression and expressed, both members of the relation are wholly and completely merged in the unity of understanding.

If we are looking for a logical construction for elementary understanding, then we should proceed from the generality in which the connection between the expression and the expressed is given and which is included in each individual act; a predicate is ascribed to the manifestation of life by means of this generality, namely, that the given manifestation is an expression of the spiritual. So, we have a conclusion by analogy, in which, by means of a limited number of cases contained in generality, this or that predicate is assigned to the subject with probability.

The doctrine put forward here about the difference between elementary and higher forms of understanding justifies the previously carried out separation of the pragmatic interpretation from the historical, insofar as this doctrine derives the difference between elementary and complex forms from their relationship, which is contained in the understanding itself.

Higher forms of understanding

The transition from elementary forms of understanding to higher ones is already laid down in elementary forms. The greater the internal distance between a given manifestation of life and an understanding subject, the greater the unreliability. Various attempts are being made to eliminate it. The first transition to higher forms of understanding arises from the fact that understanding proceeds from the normal connection between the manifestation of life and the conscious principle expressed in it. If, as a result of understanding, internal difficulties arise or a contradiction with something already known, then the understander re-evaluates. He recalls those cases when the normal relationship between the manifestation of life and the inner principle did not arise. This kind of deviation is typical for those cases when we hide our inner state, our ideas and intentions from a stranger with an impenetrable look or silence. AT this case the observer misinterprets only the absence of a visual manifestation of life. However, it is often necessary to take into account that there is an intention to mislead us. Gestures, facial expressions and words contradict the inner content. Thus, the task that arises in different ways - to attract other forms of manifestation of life or to return to the integral connectedness of life - allows us to resolve our doubt.

However, in practical life communication, independent demands and judgments about the character and abilities of individual people also arise. We constantly take into account the interpretation of individual gestures. facial expressions, purposeful actions or their relationship; this interpretation is carried out by means of inferences by analogy, but our understanding goes deeper: trade and communication, public life, profession and family indicate to us that it is necessary to penetrate into inner world the people around us in order to establish to what extent we can rely on them. Here the relation between expression and what is expressed passes into a relation between the diversity of manifestations of another person's life and the inner connection underlying this diversity. This leads to the need to take into account changes in circumstances. Here, therefore, an inductive conclusion is presented from the individual manifestations of life to the coherence of life as a whole. The premise of the conclusion is knowledge of mental life in its relation to the environment and circumstances. Since the number of these manifestations of life is limited and since the connection that forms their basis is indefinite, the result of the conclusion can only claim a probabilistic character. And when this calculation is extended to the actions of a living being capable of understanding in new conditions, then a deductive conclusion based on inductive penetration into a psychic connection can be made only with some degree of expectation or possibility. The transition from a psychic connection, which as such has only probability, to one that is capable of responding to new conditions, can only presuppose expectation, and not certainty. The premise is capable of a wider transformation, but it cannot claim certainty either.

However, not all higher forms of understanding are rooted in the fundamental relation of the result of an action to the effective cause. It turned out that such an assumption does not apply to elementary forms of understanding; the most important part of higher forms is also rooted in relation to expression and expressed. The understanding of the works of the spiritual sphere in many cases is directed only to the connection in which the individual parts of the work form a whole, as long as they are comprehended sequentially. Precisely because of essential the fact that understanding discards the highest achievement worked out for the knowledge of the spiritual world, and this form of understanding is realized in its independence. Take, for example, the drama. Not only does the spectator, who is not literary educated, completely surrender to the action, forgetting about the author of the play, but a person who is literary educated can also be completely absorbed in what is happening on the stage. In this case, his understanding is focused on the connection of the action, the characters of the characters, the interweaving of moments that determine the turn of fate. After all, only then the viewer will enjoy the full reality of the presented passage from life. Only then will the process of understanding and empathy be fully completed in him in the way that the author intended to implement it in the viewer. And the whole sphere of this kind of understanding of spiritual creations is subordinated exclusively to the relation of expression and the expressed spiritual world. When the viewer first notices that what he recently perceived as a piece of reality was skillfully and systematically created by the mind of the writer, then the understanding, controlled by the relationship between the totality of manifestations of life and what is expressed in them, passes into an understanding in which the relation already dominates. between creation and creator.

If we summarize everything that has been said about the higher forms of understanding, then their general character is that these forms, based on the given manifestations of life with the help of inductive inference, lead to the comprehension of the connection of the whole. Namely: the fundamental relation that determines the transition from the external to the internal is either the relation of the expression to the expressed, or, mainly, the relation of the result to the action of a person. The understanding procedure is based on an elementary form of understanding, which, as it were, makes the elements of reconstruction accessible. However, this procedure differs from the elementary form of understanding in broader features that make the nature of higher forms of understanding quite obvious.

Understanding always has the individual as its object. And in its highest forms, understanding is based on an inductive conclusion, which passes from what exists in a work or life together, to the disclosure of a connection in a work or person of a certain life relationship. But even when analyzing the experience and understanding of oneself, it turned out that the individual in the spiritual world is valuable in itself, moreover, it represents the only value in itself that can be ascertained without any doubt. Therefore, the individual interests us not so much as a universal, but as an individual whole. This interest is completely alien to practical interests, which always force you to reckon with other people and which, in different forms- noble and low, vulgar and vulgar - occupy a significant place in our lives. The mystery of personality impels us to carry out more and more attempts at understanding for its own sake. And in this kind of understanding, the realm of individuals is opened, embracing people and their creations. This is the peculiar efficacy of understanding in the sciences of the spirit. History is based on their understanding.

However, we are able to reach an understanding of individuals only thanks to their kinship with each other, thanks to something common in them. This process presupposes a connection between the universal and individualization, on the basis of which it extends into a variety of spiritual existences, and we constantly practically solve the problem - to experience internally, as it were, the ascent to individualization. The material for solving this problem is single data, combined inductively. Each of them is individual, and that is how it is comprehended in this procedure. Therefore, each of them contains a moment that makes it possible to comprehend the individual certainty of the whole. But the premise of this procedure always takes on more expanded forms by immersion in the individual, comparing one individual with another, and thus the procedure of understanding leads to ever greater depths of the spiritual world. Just as in the objective spirit there is a certain order, divided into types, and humanity is a kind of organized system, which passes from regularity and structure in the universal to types, through which understanding comprehends individuals. Since it is assumed that these types differ not in qualitative differences, but only in the emphasis on individual points, and insofar as they try to present these types psychologically, the internal principle of individualization lies in the emphasis on certain points. And if it were possible to consider two principles effective in the act of understanding at the same time - a change in mental life and its states under the influence of circumstances as an external principle of individualization, and as an internal principle - a change with the help of an emphasis on various elements of the structure, then understanding a person, works of poetry and prose would be an approach to the greatest mystery of life. So it is in fact. To realize this, we must look at what is inaccessible to understanding by means of any logical formulas - and here, after all, we can only talk about such a schematic and symbolic image.

Transferring-oneself-to-the-other, imitation, empathy

The position of the highest form of understanding in relation to its subject is determined by the task of understanding: to find a vital connection in the given. This is possible only insofar as the connection, which is contained in one's own experience and is experienced an uncountable number of times, is always present and given with all the possibilities inherent in it. This comprehension, already given in the task of understanding, we call the transference of oneself into the other's place, whether it be a person or a work. Therefore, each line of the poem is animated by the inner connection of experience, which forms the source of the poem. The possibilities hidden in the soul are actualized by words with the help of elementary acts of understanding. The soul chooses the habitual paths on which, in similar life situations, it once experienced suffering and pleasure, desired something and acted. Innumerable ways open in the past and in the dreams of the future; the words read become the source of innumerable shades of thought. The very fact that the poem points to an external situation has a beneficial effect in that the lines of the poet give rise to the appropriate mood. Here we have the aforementioned attitude, according to which any form of expression of experience contains something more than what existed in the mind of the poet or artist, and therefore evoke a greater response. So, if the presence of a special connection experienced in the soul already follows from the formulation of the problem of understanding, then it should be characterized as the transfer of one's own Self into a given set of manifestations of life.

But on the basis of this transference-of-oneself-to-other-place. this transposition occurs supreme view understanding, where the integrity of the life of the soul becomes effective in understanding - imitation or empathy. Understanding is an operation, itself the reverse of the course of action. Full empathy is due to the fact that understanding moves forward with life itself. Thus, the process of transferring-oneself-into-the-other's place, the process of transposition, expands. Empathy is creativity, carried out in the course of events. So, we are moving forward with historical time, experiencing some event in a distant land, or something. what happens in the soul of a loved one. It reaches its perfection when the event is permeated with the consciousness of a poet, artist or historian, fixed in some work and exists before us as inexactly solid.

Thus, the order of the lines of a lyrical poem makes it possible to empathize with a certain connection of experience: not the actual connection that motivated the poet, but the one that, rooted in it, was put by the poet into the mouth of an ideal personality. The sequence of scenes in the play makes it possible to empathize with individual fragments of the life of the characters. The storytelling of novelists or historians, which follows the course of history, aims to instill empathy in us. The triumph of empathy lies in the fact that in it the fragments of the process would be replenished so that we believe that we have before us a continuous process.

What is this empathy? This process interests us here only in its effectiveness, it is not necessary to explain it psychologically. Therefore, we do not consider the relationship of this concept to the concept of sympathy and to the concept of empathy, although the connection between them is clearly visible already in the fact that sympathy enhances the energy of empathy. We steadily trace the significant role of empathy in our mastery of the spiritual world, which is based on two points. Any life image of the environment and the external situation awakens empathy in us. And fantasy can strengthen or weaken the emphasis on those modes of behavior that are connected with our own life, on feelings, aspirations, ideological orientation, and thereby achieve an imitation of the life of the soul of another person. The curtain rises. Richard appears, and the dynamic soul, following his words, facial expressions and movements, can empathize with what is impossible in reality, real life, the fantastic forest in the play “As You Like It” creates in us such a mood that forces us to imitate all the extravagances.

And in the achievement of empathy lies a significant part of those studies in spiritual subjects, for which we are grateful to the historian and poet. The course of life of each person determines that constant determination, which limits the possibilities existing in him. The formation of its essence always predetermines further development person. In short, a person always learns from experience (no matter how he interprets the definition of his position or the form of the life connection he has acquired) that the circle of new perspectives in life and internal changes in personality is limited. Understanding opens before him a wide realm of possibilities that do not exist in the determination of his real life. The possibility of experiencing religious states in my existence, both for me and for most of my contemporaries, is sharply limited. However, reading the letters and writings of Luther, the testimonies of his contemporaries, the acts of religious meetings and church councils, his official relations, I experience a religious event when the question of life and death is decided with such energy that is completely alien to any possible experiences of my contemporaries. However, I can empathize with him. I transfer myself to other conditions:

everything in them requires such an unusual development religious life souls. I peer into the technique developed in the monasteries of communicating with the invisible world, which gives the souls of monks a constant focus on otherworldly objects: theological controversies here become questions of inner existence. I see how what has been shaped in monastic life by innumerable channels - with the help of sermons from church pulpits, confessions, treatises - is being distributed among the laity; I see church councils and religious movements everywhere spreading the doctrine of the invisible church and the universal priesthood. How does it relate to the emancipation of the individual in worldly life, and thus as a cell achieved in solitude, in major battles it is established in spite of the church. To transform Christianity as a force in the life of the family, profession, political relations - this has become a new powerful factor, the spirit of the time in the life of the townspeople and all those who carry out the highest work, this is found in Hans Sachs, Dürer. Since Luther is the head of this movement, we, based on the connection that permeates everything - from the universal to the religious sphere, and from the religious sphere through its historical definitions down to its individuality - are able to survive the unfolding of this movement. Thus, this process opens up to us the religious world of Luther and the figures of the first stages of the Reformation, and this religious world expands the horizon of the possibilities of human life, which are made available to us only in this way. So, a person who is internally determined can experience in his imagination the life of many existences. A man, limited by conditions, discovers the beauty of a foreign world and the life of countries that he will never be able to visit. More generally speaking, man, dependent and determined by the reality of life, becomes free not only through art, which is most often noted, but also through understanding historical process. And this impact of history, which its modern detractors have not noticed, expands and deepens on further steps. historical consciousness.

Interpretation, or interpretation

How clearly it is revealed in imitation and empathy with something alien and past that understanding is based on a special personal genius! But since understanding remains an important and constant task and the basis of historical science, then personal genius becomes a technique, and this technique is improved along with the development of historical consciousness. It is due to the fact that understanding deals with fixed manifestations of life, so it can always turn back to them. Interpretation is what we mean by understanding the fixed manifestations of life. inherent in art. Since spiritual life finds its full, exhaustive, and therefore objectively comprehensible expression only in language, the interpretation ends in the interpretation of the traces of human existence left in the work. This art is the basis of philology. The science of this art is hermeneutics 10

With the interpretation of the traces that have come down to us, their criticism is inevitably and internally connected. It arises from the difficulties that interpretation reveals, and thus leads to the purification of texts, to the rejection of documents, works, traditions. Interpretation and criticism have always been presented in the course historical development new aids to the solution of their problems, just as natural scientific research has always led to new improvements in experiment. The transfer of aids created by one generation of philologists and historians to another generation is based primarily on the personal contact of the great virtuosos and on the traditions of their work. Nothing in the scientific realm seems to be so personally conditioned and bound by human contact as the art of philology. Hermeneutics, having reduced the philological art to rules, corresponded to the spirit of that historical epoch, which strove to pass legislation in all fields; and this hermeneutical legislation conformed to the theories artistic creativity who even understood creativity as a performance carried out according to certain rules. Later, during the greatest upsurge of historical consciousness in Germany, this hermeneutical legislation was replaced by the ideals of Friedrich Schlegel, Schleiermacher and Beck. Their teachings substantiate a new, deeper understanding of spiritual creativity, which was first made possible by Fichte, and Schlegel put forward in his project of a science of criticism. Linked to these new views on creativity is Schleiermacher's bold aphorism: the author must be understood better than he understood himself. However, this paradoxical aphorism conceals a certain truth that can be substantiated psychologically.

Today, hermeneutics poses a new significant task for the sciences of the spirit. Hermeneutics has always defended the certainty of understanding as opposed to historical skepticism and subjectivist arbitrariness. First, hermeneutics waged a struggle against allegorical interpretation, then against Tridentine skepticism, defending the understanding of the Bible from itself and justifying the teaching of Protestantism, and then, undoubtedly, theoretically justified in the person of Schlegel, Schleiermacher and Beck the future progress of the philological and historical sciences. At present, hermeneutics must express its attitude to the general epistemological problem, show the possibility of knowledge about the historical world and find means for its implementation, the fundamental meaning of understanding has become clear; now it is necessary to determine the achievable degree of general validity of understanding, starting with the logical forms of understanding and moving on.

• 10 Wed. also "The Emergence of Hermeneutics", "Gesammelte Schriften", Bd. V, S. 318ff.

We see the starting point for establishing the real value of the statements of the sciences about the spirit in the character of experience, which is the internalization of reality.

If experience becomes an object of fixing consciousness in elementary acts of thought, then only those relations that are contained in experience are noticeable in them. Discursive thinking represents what is contained in experience. Understanding is based primarily on the fact that in every experience characterized as understanding there is a relation of expression to what is expressed in it. This ratio is experienced in its originality, different from all others. And since we overcome the narrow boundaries of experience only by interpreting the manifestations of life, the central procedure in the construction of the sciences about the spirit is understanding. But this reveals that understanding cannot be treated simply as a procedure of thought; transposition, imitation, empathy - these facts pointed to the integrity of mental life, manifested in this process. Here, understanding is connected with the experience itself, and this is the internalization of this situation by an integral spiritual life. Thus, in every understanding there is something irrational, so long as life itself is irrational; understanding can never be represented by formulas of logical operations. The ultimate, though purely subjective, certainty of empathy can never be replaced by a test of the cognitive value of the conclusions in which the process of understanding can be set forth. Such are the limits of the logical development of understanding, established by its nature.

If we see that the laws and forms of thought are significant for every science, and that in the methods of the sciences, in accordance with the relation of cognition and reality, there is a deep kinship, then together with understanding we come to those procedures that have nothing in common with the methods of natural science. After all, these procedures are based on the relation of the manifestations of life to the inner principle expressed in them.

And in the thought procedures inherent in understanding, it is necessary first of all to single out the grammatical and historical preparatory work, which serves only to transfer the orientation of understanding to stable objects - to the past, spatially distant or alien in language - from the era and environment in which he lived the author, in the era and environment that surrounds the reader.

With the help of elementary forms of understanding based on certain number cases in which a sequence of similar manifestations of life expresses a conscious principle that also reveals a corresponding relationship, it is concluded that this relationship exists in other similar cases. From the repetition of the same meaning of a word, gesture, external act, it is concluded that this meaning will be preserved in other cases. But you can immediately see how inefficient this conclusion scheme is. In fact, as we have shown, the manifestations of life are at the same time for us the representation of the universal; we draw conclusions by ordering them according to the types of gestures, actions, dialects. The conclusion from the particular to the particular presupposes a relation to the general, which is presented in each case. And this relationship becomes more and more distinct not where the conclusion about a new case is drawn from the relationship between a number of single, similar manifestations of life and the psyche, the expression of which they are, but where more complex individual circumstances are the subject of a conclusion by analogy. Therefore, from the regular connection of certain properties of a more complex nature, we conclude that in the presence of this connection, this property will also be present in the new case, although it has not yet been observed in it. On the basis of this conclusion, we attribute the mystical work, which is newly found or the time of writing of which must be re-determined, to one or another circle of mystical writings of a certain period. But in such a conclusion, the desire is constantly realized to deduce from individual cases a method of construction that connects its individual parts with each other, and thereby give a deeper justification for a new case. So, in fact, the conclusion by analogy passes into the inductive conclusion, which is applied to a new case. The distinction between these two modes of inference is of very relative importance for the process of understanding. Everywhere, only the justification of some limited degree of expectation of a new case is obtained, about which the conclusion is drawn. No general rule can be found for this degree of expectation, it can only be judged from circumstances which are always different. Finding the rules for this assessment is the task of the logic of the sciences of the spirit 11 .

In this case, the procedure of understanding justified here should be understood as induction. And this induction is of the type in which universal law is derived not from an incomplete series of cases, but from their structure, systemic organization, connecting the cases as parts into one whole.

• 11 There is a gap in the manuscript. The beginning of the next paragraph is crossed out.

Inductions of this type are common both to the sciences of nature and to the sciences of the spirit. With this kind of induction, Kepler discovered the elliptical orbit of the planet Mars. And just as geometric intuition was the source here, which made it possible to derive a simple mathematical pattern from observations and calculations, similarly, it is necessary to combine everything studied in the process of understanding - words into a certain meaning and the meaning of individual parts of the whole into its structure. For example, given the order of words. Each of them is definitely-indefinite, and it contains the variability of its meaning. The means of syntactic correlation of words with each other are also polysemantic within strict limits: this is how meaning arises, since the indefinite is determined by the syntactic construction. And further, the value of the composition of the parts of the whole, consisting of sentences, is also polysemantic within certain limits, and it is established from the whole ... 12 .

Applications. 1) Understanding music

In experience, we have not comprehended our Self either in the form of a stream or in the depths of what it contains in itself. Indeed, like an island rising from inaccessible depths, a small sphere of conscious life rises. But from these depths expressiveness rises. Therefore, in understanding, life itself becomes available to us as an imitation of creativity. Of course, we have before us only the work; this work, in order to last, must be fixed in some spatial components - in notes, letters, a phonogram, or initially in memory; however, what is so fixed is an ideal image of a certain process, a musical or poetic connection of experiences; and what do we discover? Parts of a whole that evolve over time. But in every part, what we call a trend is effective. Sound follows sound and combines with it according to the laws of our tonal system; but within this system there are boundless possibilities, so that the preceding sound conditions the next. The melodic links appearing one after another seem to be almost synchronous. While the previous element determines the next one, however, the last of the melodies in Handel's work justifies the initial one at the same time. And in the same way, the descending melodic line, tending to the forging point, is conditioned by the finale and, in turn, conditions it. Everywhere - freedom of opportunity. This conditioning is not necessary. It is, as it were, a free harmony of images striving for each other and again diverging. It is impossible to understand why the second element of the estate so follows the first, giving a new nuance of harmony, why it is placed in this variation, decorated with this figure. Here, the obligation to be exactly like this (das Sosein-Mussen) is not yet a necessity, but the realization of an aesthetic value; and one should not think that something else could not have been put in this particular place. And here one finds a tendency, rooted in creativity, towards what reflection calls beautiful or sublime.

The object of the historical study of music is not a spiritual process, which is tried to be revealed behind a sounding work, not something psychological, but objective, namely the connection of sounds that arises in fantasy as expressiveness. The task is to compare - after all, this is a comparative science - to find tonal means for the implementation of individual acts of influence.

And in more broad sense music is an expression of experience. Experience here is any kind of connection of individual experiences in the present and in memory, expressiveness is in the process of imagination, in which experience manifests itself in a historically unfolding world of sounds, where all means serve for expression and are united by the historical continuity of tradition. Moreover, in this creative work of the imagination there is not a single rhythmic image, not a single melody that does not speak of what has been experienced, and yet they are more than expression. After all, the world of music with infinite possibilities for the beauty of sounds and for their meaning already exists and is constantly progressing in history, is capable of infinite development, and the musician lives in it, and not in his own world. feeling.

No history of music can say anything about how experience becomes music. This is precisely the highest impact of music: what is dark in the musical soul, indefinitely and often imperceptible to the ego itself, suddenly, without any intention, receives a crystal clear expression in musical images. Here there is no split between experience and music, no doubled world and transition from one world to another. A genius lives in the world of sounds as if there was only this world, forgetting about his fate and suffering for the sake of it, and at the same time all this is the world of sounds. In the same way, there is no definite path from experience to music. Whoever experiences music, thanks to creative ecstasy, memories emerge, fleeting images, indefinite moods of the past that are contained in music - he tries to proceed, firstly, from the invention of rhythm, secondly, from harmonic sequence, and then again from experiences. In the entire world of art, musical creativity is most strongly associated with technical rules and is freest of all in a spiritual outburst.

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In all these spiritual movements various directions and one must look for the seat of creativity and a mystery that will never be fully revealed, because the succession of sounds, the rhythm, mean something that they themselves are not. This is not a psychological relationship between mental states and their incarnations in fantasy - whoever seeks it is mistaken. Moreover, it is the relationship between the objectively given piece of music and its parts created by fantasy, and the meaning of the whole piece and each melody separately. In other words, there is something that tells the listener about the soul, exists in the ratio of rhythm, melody, harmonic relations and impressions of the soul, expressing itself in all this. Not psychological, but musical relations are the subject of the doctrine of musical genius, work and theory of music. The ways of the artist are inscrutable. The relationship of a piece of music to what it expresses to the listener and what the music thus says to him is definitely, comprehensible and conceivable. We are talking about interpretations of a piece of music by conductors or performers. Interpretation is an attitude towards a piece of music. Its object is something objective. What is psychologically effective in the artist may be a movement from music to experience, or from experience to music, or both; and what lies in the depths of the soul does not at all need to be experienced by the artist, and often remains unexperienced by him. It moves imperceptibly in the depths of the soul, and only in the work for the first time is the full expression of the dynamic relationship that existed in these depths. This dynamic relation can be subtracted from the product for the first time. The value of music lies precisely in the fact that it expresses a dynamic attitude, makes for us an object that was active in the artist's soul. All this - in terms of quality, in the course of time, in terms of the form of movement, in terms of total content - is analyzed in a musical work and is clearly perceived as a relationship of rhythm, sequence of sounds and harmony, as a relationship of the beauty of sound and expression,

The original world is the world of sounds with its inherent expressive and aesthetic possibilities, developed in the history of music and perceived by the musician from childhood, a world that is always present for the musician and is what everything that happens to him turns into, growing from the depths of his soul, in order to express it; fate, suffering and bliss exist for the artist above all in his melodies. Here again, the role of memory as an effective meaning is significant. The burden of life as such is too great to allow the free flight of fantasy. But the echo of the past, dreams about it - that airy element, far from earthly burdens, from which weightless images of music are born.

These aspects of life are expressed in rhythm, melody, harmony, in the form of the realization of the mood, its rise, fall, in something continuous, constant, in the depths of spiritual life, pacified in harmony.

The existing foundations of the history of music must be supplemented by the doctrine of musical meaning. It is the mediator that connects the theory of music with creativity and retrospectively with the life of the artist, with the development of music schools; the relationship between music theory and creativity is the true secret of the musical fantasy.

Let's give examples. In the finale of the first part of Don Juan, rhythms are heard that differ not only in tempo, but also in size. Through this, a certain effect is achieved, when completely different components of human life, the joy of dancing and so on, seem to be connected. Thus, the diversity of the world finds its expression. It is in this that the influence of music actually consists, which is based on the possibility that allows different persons or different musical subjects, such as choirs and the like, to act simultaneously side by side with each other, while poetry is connected only with dialogue. This is the root of the metaphysical character of music.

To give another example: Handel's aria, in which for all intents and purposes a simple ascending sequence of sounds is repeated over and over again. Thus, in remembrance, a visible whole arises; the rise of sounds becomes an expression of power. But it is based, ultimately, on the fact that, for simplicity, memory connects the temporal sequence. Take, for example, the chorale, which originated from a folk song. The simple melody of the song, expressing quite decisively the change of feelings, finds itself in new conditions. The uniform, slow succession of tones, the harmonic sequence carried by the main tone of the organ, make possible such an attitude towards an object that rises above the change of feelings, like a certain peak. It is like a kind of religious conversion, a relation to the supersensible world that is realized in time, a relation of the finite to the infinite, which thereby becomes expressible. Or, for example, let's take the appeal of a suffering soul to the Savior in Bach's cantata. Here - restless, fast, fading in numerous intervals, in high tones, coloratura sounds and characterize a certain type of soul; and there - deep, calm sounds with their slow sequence, moreover, most of them are consonant with each other, expressing the spiritual type of the Savior in pacified tonal schemes. No one can doubt their meanings 13 .

The meaning of music unfolds in two opposite directions. First of all, being the expression of a poetic sequence of words, and thus of a certain object, it unfolds in the direction of the interpretation of what has become objective thanks to the word. In instrumental music there is no definite subject, its subject is something infinite or indefinite. However, this subject is given in life itself. Thus, instrumental music in its highest forms has life itself as its subject. A musical genius like Bach is driven by every sound of nature, even by every gesture, indefinite noise, to corresponding musical images, dynamic tempos that have a universal character that speaks of all life. From this it is clear that program music is death for real instrumental music.

Experience and understanding

It is clear from this exposition that the various kinds of cognition - explanation, depiction and representation in discursive procedures - together constitute a method that aims at grasping and exhausting experience. Since experience is incomprehensible and no thought can penetrate it, since knowledge itself arises only in it, and the awareness of experience is always deepened by experience itself, the fulfillment of this task turns out to be endless, not only in the sense that it always involves subsequent scientific procedures, but in the sense that it is inherently insoluble. But only understanding is suitable for the implementation of the output task, since it presupposes experiencing as a method. They form two adjoining sides of the logical process.

Understanding Methods

For a person who lives today, the past is the more alien and indifferent, the farther it is from him. There are traces of the past, but their connection with us is severed. And here the role of the method of understanding, which the researcher constantly used in life itself, plays a significant role.

1. Description of this method. Experiential knowledge about ourselves; but we do not understand ourselves. In ourselves, after all, everything is self-evident to us, on the other hand, we do not have any scale for ourselves. Only what we measure with our own scale contains certain dimensions and distinctions. Can I measure myself by others? How do we understand others?

The more capable a person is, the more opportunities he has. They are significant for his life, they are still present in his memory. The longer life lasts, the greater the possibilities. Comprehension of old age, genius of understanding.

2. The form of understanding: induction, which deduces from the singularities partially defined for us the connection that determines the whole.

hermeneutics

Was there an interpretation? would be impossible if the manifestations of life were wholly alien. It would be unnecessary if there were nothing alien in them. Therefore, the interpretation lies between these two extreme opposites. It is necessary where there is something alien that the art of understanding must master.

Interpretation, which is pursued for its own sake, without external practical purpose, already exists in the conversation. Each meaningful conversation requires bringing the statements of the interlocutor into an internal connection, which is not given in his words from the outside. And the more we get to know the interlocutor, the stronger the implicit desire associated with his participation in the conversation, to comprehend the foundations of the conversation. And the well-known interpreter of Plato's dialogues insistently emphasizes the value for the interpretation of written works of a preliminary exercise in such an interpretation of oral speech 14 .

Then to this is added the interpretation of the speeches in the discussion; they can be understood when, based on the topic of discussion, the point of view is understood, from the standpoint of which the dispute considers the subject in accordance with its private interest, when the hints become clear, when the boundaries and power of speech regarding some subject are evaluated by the personality of the speaker.

Wolff's demand that the writer's thoughts can be revealed with the necessary insight thanks to the art of hermeneutics is already unfulfilled in textual criticism and in the understanding of language. However, the connection of thoughts, the nature of the hints depend on the comprehension of the individual method of combination. Attention to this individual mode of combination is a point that Schleiermacher first introduced into hermeneutics.

• 13 Further, there are some words not deciphered by the publisher.
• 14 This refers to Schleiermacher.

But individual manner is a special gift of foresight (divinatorish), and it never possesses evidentiary certainty.

The grammatical interpretation is constantly making comparisons by which words are defined, and so on. This interpretation operates on the identical in language. Psychological interpretation constantly links the gift of foresight of the individual with the classification of works according to its genre. However, this is about the place the writer occupies in the development of this genre. As long as this genre is formed, the writer creates on the basis of his individuality. He needs a lot of individual strength. But when he starts to create a work after the genre of the work is fully defined, this genre assists him, moves him forward.

The gift of foresight and comparison are linked by indifference to time. In relation to the individual, we can by no means dispense with the comparative method.

Limits of understanding

The limits of understanding lie in the mode of being given. Poetry has an intrinsic connection, but although this connection itself is devoid of temporality, it can only be comprehended in time, in the sequence of reading or listening. If I read a drama, I identify it with life itself. I move forward and the past loses its clarity and certainty. So the scenes lose their clarity. The main thesis: only by keeping the connection, I achieve a single view of all the scenes, later, however, only a framework remains of them. I approach the contemplation of the whole only through the perception of it in memory in such a way that all moments of connection are perceived together. Thus, understanding becomes an intellectual process of the highest intensity, which can never be fully realized.

When life has passed, nothing remains but memories of it, since this memory is also connected with the duration of the life of individuals, insofar as it is therefore fleeting 15 .

The comprehension of these traces of the past is everywhere the same - understanding. Only the kind of understanding is different. Common to all these species is the transition from comprehending indefinite parts to an attempt to grasp the meaning of the whole, and then to an attempt, based on this meaning, to better define these parts. It can fail when individual parts make it impossible to understand them in this way. And this forces us to give a new definition of meaning, necessary for understanding the parts. These attempts continue until the entire meaning contained in the manifestations of life is exhausted. The proper nature of understanding lies in the fact that here the image is not placed at the base as a kind of reality, which is typical for the knowledge of nature, which operates with what is unambiguously defined. In the cognition of nature, the image turns into a solid value, expressed in contemplation. The object is constructed from images as something stable, which explains the change of images.

• 15 Further words not deciphered by the publisher.

The work of Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) is marked by the desire to create a "critique of historical reason" and to substantiate the value of the sciences of the spirit (Geisteswissenschaften). He was an opponent of Hegel's philosophy. Dilthey also disagrees with the positivist reduction of the historical world to nature with the help of a causal-deterministic scheme. "Return to Kant", announced by the school of neo-criticism, he associated with a turn in the problems within the socio-historical sciences, with the interpretation of man as a volitional being, and not just a cognizer. That is why Dilthey intended to create a "critique of historical reason". Dilthey is the author of such historical works as: "The Life of Schleiermacher"(1867-1870), "Intuition during the Renaissance and Reformation"(1891-1900), "The Story of the Young Hegel"(1905-1906), "Life Experience and Poetry"(on romanticism, 1905), "Three epochs of modern aesthetics"(1892).

Already in "Introduction to the sciences of the spirit"(1883), the philosopher draws a distinction between the sciences of nature and the sciences of the spirit according to the subject. The subject matter of the natural sciences is phenomena external to man. The sciences of the spirit are occupied with human relations, the knowledge of which has a direct character. There is, in addition, an epistemological difference: not the observation of external objects as data of natural sciences, but internal experience (Erlebnis) is interested in history as a science of the spirit with its categories of meaning, purpose, value, etc. “We understand social facts from the inside, they are reproducible to a certain extent within us on the basis of introspection and intuition. We color our conceptions of the world with love and hate through the play of our affects. Nature, on the contrary, is silent, as if alien... It is something external for us. Our world is society."

So, the human world is structured as a historical one. AT "Ideas on Descriptive and Analytical Psychology"(1894) and in "Contribution to the study of individuality"(1896) Dilthey considers analytical psychology (different from explanatory) as the basis of other sciences about the spirit, analyzes the problem of uniformity, as well as historical individuation. The sciences of the spirit are called upon to study

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encyclopedists, Comte); 2) objective idealism, for which all reality is given by an internal principle (Heraclitus, the Stoics, Spinoza, Leibniz, Shaftesbury, Goethe, Schelling, Schleiermacher, Hegel); 3) the idealism of freedom, which distinguishes the spirit from nature (Plato, Cicero, Kant, Fichte, Maine de Biran).

Metaphysical systems are illegal in their claim to an absolute and all-encompassing explanation of reality, Dilthey believes. Metaphysical constructions are also products of history. The task of the philosopher is to propose a critically understood "philosophy" of philosophy, to explore the possibilities and limits of philosophy. Thus the analysis of historical foundations leads to a "critique of historical reason". There is no eternal philosophy, just as there is no system of equal value for all nations. "The relativity of any historical phenomenon is connected with the fact of its finiteness."

But it is especially important that “realization of the finiteness of any historical phenomenon, any human and social situation, understanding the relativity of any form of faith is the last step towards the liberation of man. With it, he rises to the level where any experience (Erlebnis) is recognized as having its own content, and this is done boldly and decisively, without the mediation of any philosophical or religious system. Life is freed from conceptual knowledge, the spirit becomes a sovereign, inaccessible to the web of dogmatic thought. Beauty, holiness, sacrificial feat, experienced and comprehended, reveal reality. So also to everything vicious, shameful and ugly we assign special place, justified by world connection: something about which one cannot be deceived. In the face of relativity, the value of a continuous creative force as an essential historical element is clear... Like the letters of a word, life and history have a meaning: both life and history have their own syntactic moments, like a comma or a connecting union... We discover that meaning and meanings germinate in man and his history. But not in a single person, but in a historical one. For man is a historical being…”