Abstract

This article describes the different positions of Dilthey and Braniß in respect to the significance and the task of philosophy and history within the shaping of the paradigms of thought and the orientation criteria of modernity. The scientific nature of the disciplines and that of progress represents a point of reference for facing the historicity of logic, the relationship between history and philosophy and the relationship between history and religion. In this perspective, Braniß’s approach emerges as a metaphysical one while Dilthey’s approach intends the foundation of empirical knowledge in the realm of the humanities and scienties