These facts prove the errors of the materialist conception of history more eloquently than anything else. According to Dilthey, life is a human experience, and the experience is always expressed and manifests in the external world. The manifestation of experience is the world of history and culture. Therefore, the cultural system, including religion, philosophy, art, science, politics, and law, is the objectifications of life. Simmel asserted similarly that history is the expression of life.
Life is a stream that continues infinitely.
Accordingly, the question of how people could be liberated from pain and unhappiness remained unsolved in philosophy of life. The Cultural View of History In Europe before World War 1, trust in the progress and development of history was not shaken. In addition, it was believed that history was developing centering around Europe. Spengler advocated a cultural view of history, asserting that the foundation of history is culture. He regarded culture as an organism, and considered that, a culture is born, grows, and dies, and therefore its death is inevitable.