Dilthey's critique of Kant's concept of time

Abstract

Although Dilthey accepts the impact that Kant’s philosophy had on his own philosophy, he is totally opposed to the concept of time and transcendental philosophy of Kant. Dilthey sees it as an absolute prerequisite that in order to finalize the creation of the spiritual world, these views of Kant’s have to be criticized. According to Dilthey, Kant regarded time as a “pure intuition” and it is not possible to comprehend the truth of life with this view. As opposed to what Kant claims, life itself is the only truth and beyond that does not lie something timeless. Dilthey further argues that Kant did not successfully analyze inner and outer experiences so that it would confirm the “real time” and the “phenomenon of space”. This shortcoming led him to expand the concept of appearance to include internal experience. In this way, Kant disregarded the difference of internal experience from empirical experience.