 Dilthey’s first major theoretical work is the Introduction to the Human Sciences of 1883. The human sciences (Geisteswissenschaften) encompass both the humanities and the social sciences. They range from disciplines like philology, literary and cultural studies, religion and psychology, to political science and economics. Dilthey insists that the human sciences be related not by some logical construct on the order of August Comte or J.S. Mill, but by means of reflective considerations that take their historical genesis into account. Dilthey writes that 