Abstract

The author closely examines the contents of Rickert’s essay Die vier Arten des Allgemeinen in der Geschichte and compares the way in which Rickert develops his argumentation with the ampler treatment that the same theme receives in the first edition of the Grenzen der naturwissenschaftlichen Begriffsbildung . Such a comparison makes it possibile to identify a specifically “logical” – rather than “gnosiological” – reading of the Grenzen and therefore to point out some lesser known easons why this work represented for Max Weber a major “conceptual reservoir”