An inquiry into the philosophical foundations of the human sciences / Alfred Claassen ; with a foreword by David Rubinstein.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Sectoralism and the basic dimensions of the human -- The consummatory and instrumental -- Levels of reflexivity -- Id, ego, superid, and superego -- Community, association, supercommunity, and superassociation -- The ideal and real -- Individualism and collectivism -- Consciousness, character, space, and time -- The impasse of sectoralism -- Part II: Universalism and the complex dimensions of the human -- The rational universal -- Religion -- Ethics -- Individualism and collectivism in the universal -- Balancing the balancing mechanism -- Harmony and conflict -- Part III: The epistemics of the human sciences -- Dialectical historicism -- Phenomenology and method in the human sciences -- Aesthetics -- Overcoming skepticism and radical relativism -- Reunifying the human sciences under philosophy.