Ideal Types as Hermeneutic Concepts.
My paper sets out to demonstrate that Weber's ideal-typical theory of concept formation, subject to certain modifications, is compatible with the principles of philosophical hermeneutics and is therefore a valuable strategy of concept formation for interpretive historical inquiry. The essay begins w...
| Published in: | Journal of the Philosophy of History Vol. 1; no. 3; pp. 318 - 346 |
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Sep2007
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