On Dilthey 's Cultural Philosophy

The philosophy of culture is a hot issue to research in recent years.Its object and research methods have become academic theme to discuss all the time,the answer to this question relates to legitimate foundation of the philosophy of culture.Dilthey’s spirit science offer a way to clarify this issue,help us explore reason conscious of the philosophy of culture from the history of philosophical thought.Dilthey saw the human and social science’s crises in the challenge of traditional metaphysics and natural science,trying to designate an independent subject area for it,thus proving the legality of culture science,to lay a solid theoretical foundation for it.Based on such a philosophy demands,Dilthey constructed spirit science theory,through comparative study with the natural science in the object and research method,to clarify the spirit science is completely independent of the natural science,have their own unique methods and purpose,complete the answer about the possibility of culture science,contains the thought of the philosophy of culture.In the spirit science of Dilthey,the most core content is playing human life upon the cornerstone of realistic culture,realized the essence of human existence,and the essence reflects the unify between subject and object,in order to confirm human richness and openness,beyond the traditional metaphysics limit about the study of human,deepen the philosophy of culture.Therefore,Dilthey’s ideological theory provides a valuable reference for the basic content of the philosophy of culture.