Lebensphilosophie

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Lebensphilosophie is a philosophical movement that emphasizes lived experience, vitality, and the historical life-world over abstract rationalism and systematic metaphysics.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf 19th-century philosophy
20th-century philosophy
philosophical current
philosophical movement
associatedWith Alois Riehl
Friedrich Nietzsche
Georg Simmel
Henri Bergson
Ludwig Klages
Max Scheler
Theodor Lessing
Wilhelm Dilthey
coreConcept becoming rather than being
historical life-world
immediacy of experience
life
lived experience
pre-reflective experience
vitality
countryOfOrigin Germany
developedInPeriod early 20th century
emergedInPeriod late 19th century
emphasizes concrete individual existence
creative will
feeling
historical context of life
intuition
non-rational dimensions of life
hasAlternativeName life-philosophy
philosophy of life
influenced cultural philosophy
existentialism
hermeneutics
phenomenology
philosophical anthropology
influencedBy Arthur Schopenhauer
Friedrich Nietzsche
Romanticism
critique of positivism
historicism
irrationalism
vitalism
keyQuestion how life can be understood from within experience
what it means to live
mainRegion German-speaking Europe
methodologicalFocus interpretation of life-expressions
understanding (Verstehen)
movementLanguage German
opposes abstract rationalism
mechanistic worldview
positivist scientism
systematic metaphysics
relatedTo historicist philosophy
irrationalism
vitalism
viewOnHistory stresses historical situatedness of life
viewOnMetaphysics rejects closed systematic metaphysical systems
viewOnReason limits the primacy of abstract reason
viewOnScience criticizes reduction of life to natural-scientific explanation

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Wilhelm Dilthey knownFor Lebensphilosophie
Wilhelm Dilthey movement Lebensphilosophie