• Teleology and Intervention in Moral Development in the Work of Wilhelm Dilthey
    Dissertation, State University of New York at Albany. 1989.
    The German philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey, who died in 1911, is remembered internationally today as one of the great pioneers of the interpretive approach to the disciplined study of the human world. His contributions to foundational studies in educational theory have also long been recognized, at least in his native country, but they have, I argue, been largely misunderstood. ;Because of Dilthey's reluctance to publish his systematic works, influential early interpreters of his work were familiar …Read more