Review and Comparative Study of Nietzsche's and Dilthey's Thinking in Relation to History | ||
| فلسفه | ||
| Volume 21, Issue 1 - Serial Number 40, September 2023, Pages 185-202 PDF (604.91 K) | ||
| Document Type: Scientific-research | ||
| DOI: 10.22059/jop.2022.345372.1006725 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Hassan Gheybipour* 1; Ali Karbasizadeh2; Mohammad Safian3 | ||
| 1PhD candidate, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran. | ||
| 2Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran. | ||
| 3Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| History, under the influence of Hegel's thoughts in the 19th century, took a high place. In the following, some historians with a positivist way of thinking proposed the idea of scientific historiography. Based on that, history becomes a definite science and, like natural sciences, it is separated from the researcher's mentalities. The problem starts from here that German historicism, believing in the normative force of history, emphasized the importance that the historian should provide a direction for society and culture by discovering the pure facts and revealing their historical meaning.Based on this idea of history, the social and cultural function of philosophy was challenged. In this chaotic situation that made philosophy face the crisis of identity, Nietzsche's and Dilthey's projects, i.e. the broad and diverse movement of "philosophy of life," became the driving force of the renewal of philosophy in the 19th century.Nietzsche and Dilthey agreed on the issue that comprehensive historiography in its understanding of human beings has created the problem of relativism, which causes "dissolution" and "pessimism" and cannot predict the future of human culture. Therefore, they called for a new philosophy that should reveal the purpose of human culture and support its progress towards reaching its goal. Although they chose a similar path to confirm the cultural authority of philosophy against the results of historical criticism, they arrived at a completely different solution.Nietzsche calls the antidotes against historicism "supra-historical", which includes the art of forgetting history and living in an enclosed and determined horizon; It means having the talent to know when to sense history and when to leave it aside.In his opinion, both of these methods are equally necessary for the health of a person, the health of a nation and culture. Dilthey, unlike Nietzsche, considers history to be an antidote and a cure for the failures of the philosophy of life: If history creates a wound, it must also heal it. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Nietzsche; Dilthey; philosophy; History; Philosophy of Life | ||
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