To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.
To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.
All science is experiential; but all experience must be related back to and derives its its validity from the conditions and context of consciousness in which it arises, i.e., the totality of our nature.
If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences.
If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.
Thus there arose in me both a need and a plan for the foundation of the human sciences.
However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.
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